Tex. Health and Safety Code § 571.002
PURPOSE
Texas · Texas Health and Safety Code · Status: effective
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- Tex. Health and Safety Code § 571.002, PURPOSE, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/674585
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The purpose of this subtitle is to provide to each person having severe mental illness access to humane care and treatment by:
(1) facilitating treatment in an appropriate setting;
(2) enabling the person to obtain necessary evaluation, care, treatment, and rehabilitation with the least possible trouble, expense, and embarrassment to the person and the person's family;
(3) eliminating, if requested, the traumatic effect on the person's mental health of public trial and criminal-like procedures;
(4) protecting the person's right to a judicial determination of the person's need for involuntary treatment;
(5) defining the criteria the state must meet to order involuntary care and treatment;
(6) establishing the procedures to obtain facts, carry out examinations, and make prompt and fair decisions;
(7) safeguarding the person's legal rights so as to advance and not impede the therapeutic and protective purposes of involuntary care; and
(8) safeguarding the rights of the person who voluntarily requests inpatient care.