Section 1001.086 - Treatment Alternatives Training Curriculum for Judges and Attorneys(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: (1) to attain competency to stand trial under Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal Procedure; or(2) following an acquittal by reason of insanity under Chapter 46C, Code of Criminal Procedure.(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.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 1001.086
Added by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 207,Sec. 3, eff. 5/28/2015.