{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-534.016","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 534.016","heading":"SCREENING AND CONTINUING CARE SERVICES.","body":"(a) A community center shall provide screening services for:\n(1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and\n(2) a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.\n(b) A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.\n(c) Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.\n(d) The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if:\n(1) local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or\n(2) the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.\nAdded by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY","SUBTITLE A. SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY","CHAPTER 534. COMMUNITY SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER A. COMMUNITY CENTERS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.534.htm#534.016","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"b3d16470393b9c5307bceeb7272028a7d1da2ec655c28176ee0a50e5fd81c649","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-534.0155","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-534.017"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}