Tex. Health & Safety Code § 571.004 · Chapter 571. GENERAL PROVISIONS
LEAST RESTRICTIVE APPROPRIATE SETTING.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The least restrictive appropriate setting for the treatment of a patient is the treatment setting that:
(1) is available;
(2) provides the patient with the greatest probability of improvement or cure; and
(3) is no more restrictive of the patient's physical or social liberties than is necessary to provide the patient with the most effective treatment and to protect adequately against any danger the patient poses to himself or others.
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
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- 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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