Tex. Health & Safety Code § 242.841 · Subchapter R. ELECTRONIC MONITORING OF RESIDENT'S ROOM
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "Authorized electronic monitoring" means the placement of an electronic monitoring device in the room of a resident of an institution and making tapes or recordings with the device after making a request to the institution to allow electronic monitoring.
(2) "Electronic monitoring device":
(A) includes:
(i) video surveillance cameras installed in the room of a resident; and
(ii) audio devices installed in the room of a resident designed to acquire communications or other sounds occurring in the room; and
(B) does not include an interception device that is specifically used for the nonconsensual interception of wire or electronic communications.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1224, Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1058 (H.B. 2931), Sec. 3.12, eff. January 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.242.htm
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- 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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