Tex. Health & Safety Code § 571.002 · Chapter 571. GENERAL PROVISIONS
PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The purpose of this subtitle is to provide to each person having severe mental illness access to humane care and treatment by:
(1) facilitating treatment in an appropriate setting;
(2) enabling the person to obtain necessary evaluation, care, treatment, and rehabilitation with the least possible trouble, expense, and embarrassment to the person and the person's family;
(3) eliminating, if requested, the traumatic effect on the person's mental health of public trial and criminal-like procedures;
(4) protecting the person's right to a judicial determination of the person's need for involuntary treatment;
(5) defining the criteria the state must meet to order involuntary care and treatment;
(6) establishing the procedures to obtain facts, carry out examinations, and make prompt and fair decisions;
(7) safeguarding the person's legal rights so as to advance and not impede the therapeutic and protective purposes of involuntary care; and
(8) safeguarding the rights of the person who voluntarily requests inpatient care.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.571.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 3bd0876175d53f5a1bc65da3a2dee68c11bf8c6e9dc36866b89a602bc3073e71
- Composed by
- 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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