Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 152.00164 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EXAMINATION BEFORE DISCHARGE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A juvenile board or local juvenile probation department shall establish a system that identifies children with mental illnesses or intellectual disabilities who are in the custody of the juvenile board or local juvenile probation department.
(b) Before a child who is identified as having a mental illness is discharged from the custody of the juvenile board or local juvenile probation department under Section 152.00163(b), the juvenile board or local juvenile probation department shall arrange for a psychiatrist to examine the child. The juvenile board or local juvenile probation department shall refer a child requiring outpatient psychiatric treatment to the appropriate mental health authority. For a child requiring inpatient psychiatric treatment, the juvenile board or local juvenile probation department shall file a sworn application for court-ordered mental health services, as provided in Subchapter C, Chapter 574, Health and Safety Code, if:
(1) the child is not receiving court-ordered mental health services; and
(2) the psychiatrist who examined the child determines that the child has a mental illness and the child meets at least one of the criteria listed in Section 574.034 or 574.0345, Health and Safety Code.
(c) Before a child who is identified as having an intellectual disability under Chapter 593, Health and Safety Code, is discharged from the custody of a juvenile board or local juvenile probation department under Section 152.00163(b), the department shall refer the child for intellectual disability services if the child is not receiving intellectual disability services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 854 (S.B. 1149), Sec. 10, eff. September 1, 2015.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 582 (S.B. 362), Sec. 24, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.152.htm
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Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 574, subch. CPROCEEDINGS FOR COURT-ORDERED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICESPrinted as Subchapter C, Chapter 574, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.034ORDER FOR TEMPORARY INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.Printed as Section 574.034 or 574.0345, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.0345ORDER FOR TEMPORARY OUTPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.Printed as Section 574.034 or 574.0345, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 593ADMISSION AND COMMITMENT TO INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICESPrinted as Chapter 593, Health and Safety Code
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