Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Applicant" means a person who files an application for emergency detention, protective custody, or commitment of a person with a chemical dependency.
(2) "Certificate" means a sworn certificate of medical examination for chemical dependency executed under this chapter.
(3) "Chemical dependency" means:
(A) the abuse of alcohol or a controlled substance;
(B) psychological or physical dependence on alcohol or a controlled substance; or
(C) addiction to alcohol or a controlled substance.
(4) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services Commission.
(5) "Controlled substance" means a:
(A) toxic inhalant; or
(B) substance designated as a controlled substance by Chapter 481 (Texas Controlled Substances Act).
(5-a) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(5-b) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(6) "Legal holiday" means a state holiday listed in Section 662.021, Government Code, or an officially declared county holiday applicable to a court in which proceedings under this chapter are held.
(7) "Proposed patient" means a person named in an application for emergency detention, protective custody, or commitment under this chapter.
(8) "Toxic inhalant" means a gaseous substance that is inhaled by a person to produce a desired physical or psychological effect and that may cause personal injury or illness to the inhaler.
(9) "Treatment" means the initiation and promotion of a person's chemical-free status or the maintenance of a person free of illegal drugs.
(10) "Treatment facility" means a public or private hospital, a detoxification facility, a primary care facility, an intensive care facility, a long-term care facility, an outpatient care facility, a community mental health center, a health maintenance organization, a recovery center, a halfway house, an ambulatory care facility, another facility that is required to be licensed by the department under Chapter 464, a facility licensed by the department under Title 7, or a facility operated by the department under Title 7 that has been designated by the department to provide chemical dependency treatment. The term does not include an educational program for intoxicated drivers or the individual office of a private, licensed health care practitioner who personally renders private individual or group services within the scope of the practitioner's license and in the practitioner's office.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 175, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 671, Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 1993; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.95(15), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1160, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1639(88), eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 716 (H.B. 171), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.
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