Tex. Health & Safety Code § 555.161 · Subchapter E. ELECTRONIC MONITORING OF RESIDENT'S ROOM
ENFORCEMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The department may impose appropriate sanctions under this chapter on a director of a center who knowingly:
(1) refuses to permit a resident or the resident's guardian or legal representative to conduct authorized electronic monitoring;
(2) refuses to admit an individual to residency or allows the removal of a resident from the center because of a request to conduct authorized electronic monitoring;
(3) allows the removal of a resident from the center because covert electronic monitoring is being conducted by or on behalf of the resident; or
(4) violates another provision of this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 184 (S.B. 33), Sec. 2, eff. May 25, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.555.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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