By: Moncrief S.B. No. 571
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the administration of medication to a patient under
1-2 order for mental health services.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 574.102, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 574.102. APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter
1-7 applies only to the application of medication to a patient subject
1-8 to an order for inpatient mental health services under Section
1-9 574.034 or 574.035 who is receiving those services in a mental
1-10 health facility <operated or funded by the department>.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.