Texas Health and Safety Code 13.004 – Treatment of Certain Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability
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(a) The department or the Department of Aging and Disability Services, as appropriate, may transfer a person with mental illness or an intellectual disability who is infected with tuberculosis to a public health hospital as defined by § 13.033.
(b) The person may be transferred without that person’s consent.
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 13.004
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The cost of maintaining and treating the person at the Texas Center for Infectious Disease shall be paid from appropriations to that hospital.