Tex. Health & Safety Code § 571.006 · Chapter 571. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONER AND DEPARTMENT POWERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive commissioner may adopt rules as necessary for the proper and efficient treatment of persons with mental illness.
(b) The department may:
(1) prescribe the form and content of applications, certificates, records, and reports provided for under this subtitle;
(2) require reports from a facility administrator relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release, or discharge of any patient;
(3) regularly visit each mental health facility to review the commitment procedure for each new patient admitted after the last visit; and
(4) visit a mental health facility to investigate a complaint made by a patient or by a person on behalf of a patient.
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. 3.1356, 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.571.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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