Tex. Health & Safety Code § 592.159 · Subchapter F. ADMINISTRATION OF PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICATIONS
EFFECT OF ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person's consent to take a psychoactive medication is not valid and may not be relied on if the person is subject to an order issued under Section 592.156.
(b) The issuance of an order under Section 592.156 is not a determination or adjudication of mental incompetency and does not limit in any other respect that person's rights as a citizen or the person's property rights or legal capacity.
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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