By Hilbert H.B. No. 2448
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the administration of psychoactive medication to
1-3 minors.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 576.025(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person may not administer a psychoactive medication to
1-8 a patient receiving voluntary or involuntary mental health services
1-9 who refuses the administration unless:
1-10 (1) the patient is having a medication-related
1-11 emergency;
1-12 (2) the [patient is younger than 16 years of age and
1-13 the] patient's parent, managing conservator, or guardian consents
1-14 to the administration on behalf of the patient and the patient:
1-15 (A) is younger than 18 years of age;
1-16 (B) is unmarried; and
1-17 (C) has not had the disabilities of minority
1-18 removed;
1-19 (3) the refusing patient's representative authorized
1-20 by law to consent on behalf of the patient has consented to the
1-21 administration;
1-22 (4) the administration of the medication regardless of
1-23 the patient's refusal is authorized by an order issued under
1-24 Section 574.106; or
2-1 (5) the patient is receiving court-ordered mental
2-2 health services authorized by an order issued under Article 46.02
2-3 or 46.03, Code of Criminal Procedure.
2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.