Tex. Health & Safety Code § 611.008 · Chapter 611. MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS
REQUEST BY PATIENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) On receipt of a written request from a patient to examine or copy all or part of the patient's recorded mental health care information, a professional, as promptly as required under the circumstances but not later than the 15th day after the date of receiving the request, shall:
(1) make the information available for examination during regular business hours and provide a copy to the patient, if requested; or
(2) inform the patient if the information does not exist or cannot be found.
(b) Unless provided for by other state law, the professional may charge a reasonable fee for retrieving or copying mental health care information and is not required to permit examination or copying until the fee is paid unless there is a medical emergency.
(c) A professional may not charge a fee for copying mental health care information under Subsection (b) to the extent the fee is prohibited under Subchapter M, Chapter 161.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 856, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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.611.htm
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