{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-571.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 571.002","heading":"PURPOSE.","body":"The purpose of this subtitle is to provide to each person having severe mental illness access to humane care and treatment by:\n(1) facilitating treatment in an appropriate setting;\n(2) enabling the person to obtain necessary evaluation, care, treatment, and rehabilitation with the least possible trouble, expense, and embarrassment to the person and the person's family;\n(3) eliminating, if requested, the traumatic effect on the person's mental health of public trial and criminal-like procedures;\n(4) protecting the person's right to a judicial determination of the person's need for involuntary treatment;\n(5) defining the criteria the state must meet to order involuntary care and treatment;\n(6) establishing the procedures to obtain facts, carry out examinations, and make prompt and fair decisions;\n(7) safeguarding the person's legal rights so as to advance and not impede the therapeutic and protective purposes of involuntary care; and\n(8) safeguarding the rights of the person who voluntarily requests inpatient care.\nAdded by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY","SUBTITLE C. TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH CODE","CHAPTER 571. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.571.htm#571.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"8342887bf5aa427fb5e9f1b322408ef975cd5fa22bfbc47f0afd734a6ba9798e","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-571.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-571.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}