1-1  By:  Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)             H.B. No. 2094
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to voluntary inpatient mental health services for certain
    1-9  persons.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Sections 572.001(a) and (d), Health and Safety
   1-12  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  A person 16 years of age or older or a person younger
   1-14  than 16 years of age who is or has been married may request
   1-15  admission to an inpatient mental health facility by filing a
   1-16  request with the administrator of the facility to which admission
   1-17  is requested.  The parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a
   1-18  person younger than 16 years of age who is not and has not been
   1-19  married may request the admission of the person to an inpatient
   1-20  mental health facility by filing a request with the administrator
   1-21  of the facility to which admission is requested.
   1-22        (d)  The administrator of an inpatient mental health facility
   1-23  may admit a minor who is 16 years of age or older or a person
   1-24  younger than 16 years of age who is or has been married to an
   1-25  inpatient mental health facility as a voluntary patient without the
   1-26  consent of the <minor's> parent, managing conservator, or guardian.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  Section 572.002, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-28  amended to read as follows:
   1-29        Sec. 572.002.  ADMISSION.  The facility administrator or the
   1-30  administrator's authorized, qualified designee may admit a person
   1-31  for whom a proper request for voluntary inpatient services is filed
   1-32  if the administrator or the designee determines:
   1-33              (1)  from a preliminary examination that the person has
   1-34  symptoms of mental illness and will benefit from the inpatient
   1-35  services;
   1-36              (2)  that the person has been informed of the person's
   1-37  rights as a voluntary patient; and
   1-38              (3)  that the admission was voluntarily agreed to:
   1-39                    (A)  by the person, if the person is:
   1-40                          (i)  16 years of age or older; or
   1-41                          (ii)  younger than 16 years of age and is
   1-42  or has been married; or<, if the person is younger than 16 years of
   1-43  age,>
   1-44                    (B)  by the person's parent, managing
   1-45  conservator, or guardian, if the person is younger than 16 years of
   1-46  age and is not and has not been married.
   1-47        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-48  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-49  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-50  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-51  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-52  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-53  passage, and it is so enacted.
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