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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 841.206: FINDING THAT COMMITTED PERSON PRESENTS A DANGER.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 11. CIVIL COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS
- CHAPTER 841. CIVIL COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS
- SUBCHAPTER I. ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN MEDICATION TO CERTAIN SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS
In making a finding under Section 841.205(b)(2) that the committed person presents a danger to the committed person or others in the civil commitment center in which the committed person is being treated, the court shall consider:
(1) an assessment of the committed person's present mental condition;
(2) whether the committed person has inflicted, attempted to inflict, or made a serious threat of inflicting substantial physical or emotional harm to the committed person's self or to another while in the center; and
(3) whether the committed person, in the 180-day period preceding the date the committed person was placed in the center, has inflicted, attempted to inflict, or made a serious threat of inflicting substantial physical or emotional harm to another.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 351 (S.B. 1179), Sec. 27, eff. September 1, 2023.
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