Tex. Health & Safety Code § 164.002 · Chapter 164. TREATMENT FACILITIES MARKETING AND ADMISSION PRACTICES
LEGISLATIVE PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard the public against fraud, deceit, and misleading marketing practices and to foster and encourage competition and fair dealing by mental health facilities and chemical dependency facilities by prohibiting or restricting practices by which the public has been injured in connection with the marketing and advertising of mental health services and the admission of patients. Nothing in this chapter should be construed to prohibit a mental health facility or chemical dependency facility from advertising its services in a general way or promoting its specialized services. However, the public should be able to clearly distinguish between the marketing activities of the facility and its clinical functions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 527 (H.B. 4454), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.164.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 91be87e9136e5f6a9e916aa6761b9ca51b09db2ebcef90cfd916e4571ac4c052
- Composed by
- 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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