Tex. Health and Safety Code § 574.042
COMMITMENT TO PRIVATE FACILITY
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- Tex. Health and Safety Code § 574.042, COMMITMENT TO PRIVATE FACILITY, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/674686
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The court may order a patient committed to a private mental hospital at no expense to the state if the court receives:
(1) an application signed by the patient or the patient's guardian or next friend requesting that the patient be placed in a designated private mental hospital at the patient's or applicant's expense; and
(2) written agreement from the hospital administrator of the private mental hospital to admit the patient and to accept responsibility for the patient in accordance with this subtitle.