Tex. Health & Safety Code § 571.0066 · Chapter 571. GENERAL PROVISIONS
PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION INFORMATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall require a mental health facility that admits a patient under this subtitle to provide to the patient in the patient's primary language, if possible, information relating to prescription medications ordered by the patient's treating physician.
(b) At a minimum, the required information must:
(1) identify the major types of prescription medications; and
(2) specify for each major type:
(A) the conditions the medications are commonly used to treat;
(B) the beneficial effects on those conditions generally expected from the medications;
(C) side effects and risks associated with the medications;
(D) commonly used examples of medications of the major type; and
(E) sources of detailed information concerning a particular medication.
(c) The facility shall also provide the information to the patient's family on request, but only to the extent not otherwise prohibited by state or federal confidentiality laws.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 903, Sec. 1.01, eff. Aug. 30, 1993. Renumbered from Health & Safety Code Sec. 571.0065 by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 17.01(32), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1358, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- 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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