Tex. Health & Safety Code § 533A.011 · Subchapter A. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
RETURN OF PERSON WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY TO STATE OF RESIDENCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "department facility" includes the ICF-IID component of the Rio Grande State Center.
(a-1) The department may return a nonresident person with an intellectual disability who is committed to a department facility in this state to the proper agency of the person's state of residence.
(b) The department may permit the return of a resident of this state who is committed to a facility for persons with an intellectual disability in another state.
(c) The department may enter into reciprocal agreements with the proper agencies of other states to facilitate the return of persons committed to department facilities in this state, or facilities for persons with an intellectual disability in another state, to the state of their residence.
(d) The director of a department facility may detain for not more than 96 hours pending a court order in a commitment proceeding in this state a person with an intellectual disability returned to this state.
(e) The state returning a person with an intellectual disability to another state shall bear the expenses of returning the person.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1335, eff. April 2, 2015.
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.533A.htm
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