Bill Text: TX SB2628 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 2628

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Bill Title: Relating to medical examinations required for admission to a mental health facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-15 - Referred to Public Health [SB2628 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2628-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Campbell	S.B. No. 2628
	(In the Senate - Filed May 2, 2023; May 2, 2023, read first
	time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
	May 8, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
	Nays 0; May 8, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to requiring medical clearance before admission to an
	inpatient mental health facility.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 575.001, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to
	read as follows:
	(a) Subject to Subsection (c), the [~~The~~] facility
	administrator of an inpatient mental health facility may admit and
	detain a patient under the procedures prescribed by this subtitle.
	(c) A patient may not be admitted under Subsection (a)
	unless the patient has undergone a medical examination that
	determines that the patient does not have a medical condition that
	would prevent facility staff from providing care to the patient or
	other patients.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to an
	admission to an inpatient mental health facility on or after the
	effective date of this Act. An admission before the effective date
	of this Act is governed by the law in effect on that date, and that
	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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