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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 841.150: EFFECT OF SUBSEQUENT DETENTION, CONFINEMENT, OR COMMITMENT ON ORDER OF CIVIL COMMITMENT.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 11. CIVIL COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS
  3. CHAPTER 841. CIVIL COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS
  4. SUBCHAPTER H. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

(a) The duties imposed on the office and the judge by this chapter are suspended for the duration of a detention or confinement of a committed person in a correctional facility, secure correctional facility, or secure detention facility, or if applicable any other commitment of the person to a community center, mental health facility, or state supported living center, by governmental action.

(b) In this section:

(1) "Community center" means a center established under Subchapter A, Chapter 534.

(2) "Correctional facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.07, Penal Code.

(3) "Mental health facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 571.003.

(4) "Secure correctional facility" and "secure detention facility" have the meanings assigned by Section 51.02, Family Code.

(5) "State supported living center" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.002.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 347, Sec. 30, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 849 (S.B. 912), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2005.

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1201 (S.B. 166), Sec. 15, eff. September 1, 2011.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1629, eff. April 2, 2015.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 845 (S.B. 746), Sec. 30, eff. June 17, 2015.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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