Tex. Health & Safety Code § 592.157 · Subchapter F. ADMINISTRATION OF PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICATIONS
FINDING THAT CLIENT PRESENTS A DANGER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In making a finding under Section 592.156(b)(2) that, as a result of a mental disorder or mental defect, the client presents a danger to the client or others in the residential care facility in which the client is being treated or in the correctional facility, as applicable, the court shall consider:
(1) an assessment of the client's present mental condition; and
(2) whether the client has inflicted, attempted to inflict, or made a serious threat of inflicting substantial physical harm to the client's self or to another while in the facility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 504 (S.B. 34), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2013.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.592.htm
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