Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 244.012 · Subchapter A. GENERAL CARE AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN
EXAMINATION BEFORE DISCHARGE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall establish a system that identifies children with mental illness or intellectual disabilities in the department's custody.
(b) Before a child with mental illness is discharged from the department's custody under Section 244.011(b), a department psychiatrist shall examine the child. The department shall refer a child requiring outpatient psychiatric treatment to the appropriate mental health authority. For a child requiring inpatient psychiatric treatment, the 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 is a child with 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 department's custody under Section 244.011(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
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Human Resources Code, Subchapter E, Chapter 61 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 653), Sec. 1.007, eff. September 1, 2011.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 582 (S.B. 362), Sec. 25, eff. September 1, 2019.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 30 (H.B. 446), Sec. 7.04, eff. September 1, 2023.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 950 (S.B. 1727), Sec. 43, eff. September 1, 2023.
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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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