By: Johnson of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 2709
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021;
May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the county in which an application for court-ordered
mental health services must be filed.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 574.001(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (f), the application
must be filed with the county clerk in the county in which the
proposed patient:
(1) resides;
(2) is found; [or]
(3) is being assessed in an emergency room or
hospital; or
(4) is receiving mental health services by court order
or under Subchapter A, Chapter 573.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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