Tex. Health & Safety Code § 576.005 · Subchapter A. GENERAL RIGHTS
CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Records of a mental health facility that directly or indirectly identify a present, former, or proposed patient are confidential unless disclosure is permitted by other state law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 1007, Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 1993; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 481, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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.576.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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