Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.103 · Subchapter G. ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION TO PATIENT UNDER COURT ORDER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION TO PATIENT UNDER COURT-ORDERED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "ward" has the meaning assigned by Section 1002.030, Estates Code.
(b) A person may not administer a psychoactive medication to a patient under court-ordered inpatient mental health services who refuses to take the medication voluntarily unless:
(1) the patient is having a medication-related emergency;
(2) the patient is under an order issued under Section 574.106 authorizing the administration of the medication regardless of the patient's refusal; or
(3) the patient is a ward who is 18 years of age or older and the guardian of the person of the ward consents to the administration of psychoactive medication regardless of the ward's expressed preferences regarding treatment with psychoactive medication.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 903, Sec. 1.08, eff. Aug. 30, 1993. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1170 (S.B. 646), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2013.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1384, eff. April 2, 2015.
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