Section 571.002 - Purpose The purpose of this subtitle is to provide to each person having severe mental illness access to humane care and treatment by:
(1) facilitating treatment in an appropriate setting;(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;(3) eliminating, if requested, the traumatic effect on the person's mental health of public trial and criminal-like procedures;(4) protecting the person's right to a judicial determination of the person's need for involuntary treatment;(5) defining the criteria the state must meet to order involuntary care and treatment;(6) establishing the procedures to obtain facts, carry out examinations, and make prompt and fair decisions;(7) safeguarding the person's legal rights so as to advance and not impede the therapeutic and protective purposes of involuntary care; and(8) safeguarding the rights of the person who voluntarily requests inpatient care.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 571.002
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1991.