Tex. Health & Safety Code § 1001.086 · Subchapter D. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT
TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES TRAINING CURRICULUM FOR JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department, with input from the court of criminal appeals and the forensic director appointed under Section 532.013, shall develop and maintain a training curriculum for judges and attorneys that provides information on inpatient and outpatient treatment alternatives to inpatient commitment to a state hospital for a patient whom a court is ordering to receive mental health services:
(1) to attain competency to stand trial under Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
(2) following an acquittal by reason of insanity under Chapter 46C, Code of Criminal Procedure.
(b) The training curriculum developed and maintained under Subsection (a) must include a guide to treatment alternatives, other than inpatient treatment at a state hospital, from which a patient described by Subsection (a) may receive mental health services.
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History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 207 (S.B. 1507), Sec. 3, eff. May 28, 2015.
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