Tex. Health & Safety Code § 534.016 · Subchapter A. COMMUNITY CENTERS
SCREENING AND CONTINUING CARE SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A community center shall provide screening services for:
(1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and
(2) a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.
(b) A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.
(c) Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.
(d) The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if:
(1) local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or
(2) the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.534.htm
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