Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.0415 · Subchapter D. DESIGNATION OF FACILITY AND TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENT
INFORMATION ON MEDICATIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A mental health facility shall provide to a patient in the patient's primary language, if possible, and in accordance with department rules information relating to prescription medication ordered by the patient's treating physician.
(b) 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. 1.05, eff. May 1, 1994. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 337, Sec. 3, eff. May 27, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1382, 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.574.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 66da5c282cd50c288d7c6eda25ff4bcf56b457d9fba5f9f3b500d5e91fcb8447
- 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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