{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-137.006","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 137.006","heading":"DISCRIMINATION RELATING TO EXECUTION OF DECLARATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.","body":"A health or residential care provider, health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital service plan may not:\n(1) charge a person a different rate solely because the person has executed a declaration for mental health treatment;\n(2) require a person to execute a declaration for mental health treatment before:\n(A) admitting the person to a hospital, nursing home, or residential care home;\n(B) insuring the person; or\n(C) allowing the person to receive health or residential care;\n(3) refuse health or residential care to a person solely because the person has executed a declaration for mental health treatment; or\n(4) discharge the person solely because the person has or has not executed a declaration for mental health treatment.\nAdded by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1318, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.","path":["CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE","TITLE 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS","CHAPTER 137. DECLARATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.137.htm#137.006","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:00Z","sha256":"5e5317560a8687be974632e868c76e9137310586bf1527d12c9a64098547b81a","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-137.005","next":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-137.007"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}