{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-578.008","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 578.008","heading":"USE OF INFORMATION.","body":"The department shall use the information received under Sections 578.006 and 578.007 to analyze, audit, and monitor the use of electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, pre-frontal sonic sound treatment, or any other convulsive or coma-producing therapy administered to treat mental illness.\nAdded by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 5.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.\nAmended by:\nActs 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 856 (S.B. 800), Sec. 17, eff. September 1, 2021.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY","SUBTITLE C. TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH CODE","CHAPTER 578. ELECTROCONVULSIVE AND OTHER THERAPIES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.578.htm#578.008","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"874c54962a3b6fdf013e2764613daf86cde41f7c19e5c539e198769d10f8c4e8","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-578.007","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-579.001"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}