{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-1001.086","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 1001.086","heading":"TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES TRAINING CURRICULUM FOR JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS.","body":"(a) The department, with input from the court of criminal appeals and the forensic director appointed under Section 532.013, shall develop and maintain a training curriculum for judges and attorneys that provides information on inpatient and outpatient treatment alternatives to inpatient commitment to a state hospital for a patient whom a court is ordering to receive mental health services:\n(1) to attain competency to stand trial under Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal Procedure; or\n(2) following an acquittal by reason of insanity under Chapter 46C, Code of Criminal Procedure.\n(b) The training curriculum developed and maintained under Subsection (a) must include a guide to treatment alternatives, other than inpatient treatment at a state hospital, from which a patient described by Subsection (a) may receive mental health services.\nAdded by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 207 (S.B. 1507), Sec. 3, eff. May 28, 2015.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 12. HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH","CHAPTER 1001. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER D. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.1001.htm#1001.086","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"eb41d3be96ba440d3515f78735478397c3ef659d0b89114f4cfb3ed9004978c7","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-1001.085","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-1001.087"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}