Tex. Health & Safety Code § 612.007 · Chapter 612. INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH
REQUIREMENTS AFFECTING TRANSFERS OF CERTAIN PATIENTS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The compact administrator shall consult with the immediate family of any person proposed to be transferred.
(b) If a person is proposed to be transferred from an institution in this state to an institution in another state that is a party to the compact, the compact administrator may not take final action without the approval of the district court of the district in which the person resides.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.612.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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