Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.080 · Subchapter D. COURT-ORDERED TREATMENT
RELEASE FROM COURT-ORDERED TREATMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The administrator of a facility to which a person has been committed for treatment shall discharge the person when the court order expires.
(b) The administrator may discharge a patient before the court order expires if the administrator or physician treating the patient determines that the patient no longer meets the criteria for court-ordered treatment.
(c) The administrator of a facility to which the patient has been committed for inpatient services shall consider before discharging the patient whether the patient should receive outpatient court-ordered care or services in accordance with:
(1) a furlough under Section 462.077; or
(2) a modified order under Section 462.073 that directs the patient to participate in outpatient treatment.
(d) A discharge terminates the court order, and the person discharged may not be compelled to submit to involuntary treatment unless a new order is issued in accordance with this subchapter.
(e) When a person is discharged under this section, the administrator shall prepare a certificate of discharge and file it with the court that issued the order.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 175, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 716 (H.B. 171), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.462.htm
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.080. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.069COURT ORDER AND PLACE OF TREATMENT.Printed as Section 462.080(b)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.075RENEWAL OF ORDER FOR COURT-ORDERED TREATMENT.Printed as Section 462.080(b)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 462.081COMMITMENT BY COURTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS; ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING.Printed as Section 462.080(b)
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