Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.010 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CONSENT TO TREATMENT AT CERTAIN FACILITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A treatment facility licensed by the department under Chapter 464 may not provide treatment to a patient without the patient's legally adequate consent.
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall prescribe standards for obtaining a patient's legally adequate consent under this section, including rules prescribing reasonable efforts to obtain a patient's consent and requiring documentation for those efforts.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1211 (S.B. 1560), Sec. 3, eff. June 19, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.462.htm
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