Tex. Health & Safety Code § 592.017 · Subchapter B. BASIC BILL OF RIGHTS
TREATMENT AND SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Each person with an intellectual disability has the right to receive for the person's intellectual disability adequate treatment and habilitative services that:
(1) are suited to the person's individual needs;
(2) maximize the person's capabilities;
(3) enhance the person's ability to cope with the person's environment; and
(4) are administered skillfully, safely, and humanely with full respect for the dignity and personal integrity of the person.
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. 3.1412, 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.592.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 dbc77deb47e4c144b3ab73f9985df8c1df526d17b8101f8a44dcb871d95743ee
- 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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