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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 576.007: NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
- SUBTITLE C. TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH CODE
- CHAPTER 576. RIGHTS OF PATIENTS
- SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL RIGHTS
(a) The department or facility shall make a reasonable effort to notify an adult patient's family before the patient is discharged or released from a facility providing voluntary or involuntary mental health services if the patient grants permission for the notification.
(b) The department shall notify each adult patient of the patient's right to have his family notified under this section.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
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