Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 137.006 · Chapter 137. DECLARATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
DISCRIMINATION RELATING TO EXECUTION OF DECLARATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A health or residential care provider, health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital service plan may not:
(1) charge a person a different rate solely because the person has executed a declaration for mental health treatment;
(2) require a person to execute a declaration for mental health treatment before:
(A) admitting the person to a hospital, nursing home, or residential care home;
(B) insuring the person; or
(C) allowing the person to receive health or residential care;
(3) refuse health or residential care to a person solely because the person has executed a declaration for mental health treatment; or
(4) discharge the person solely because the person has or has not executed a declaration for mental health treatment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1318, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.137.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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