Tex. Gov't Code § 501.068 · Subchapter B. GENERAL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE PROVISIONS
MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR CERTAIN INMATES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Before the department may confine an inmate in administrative segregation, an appropriate medical or mental health care professional must perform a mental health assessment of the inmate.
(b) The department may not confine an inmate in administrative segregation if the assessment performed under Subsection (a) indicates that type of confinement is not appropriate for the inmate's medical or mental health.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 705 (H.B. 1083), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.501.htm
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