Section 534.016 - Screening and Continuing Care Services(a) A community center shall provide screening services for: (1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and(2) a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.(b) A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.(c) Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.(d) The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if: (1) local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or(2) the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 534.016
Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1,Sec. 3.1336, eff. 4/2/2015.Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1991.