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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 46C.254. Effect Of Stabilization On Treatment Regimen

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Art. 46C.254. EFFECT OF STABILIZATION ON TREATMENT 
REGIMEN.  If an acquitted person is stabilized on a treatment 
regimen, including medication and other treatment modalities, 
rendering the person no longer likely to cause serious harm to 
another, inpatient treatment or residential care may be found 
necessary to protect the safety of others only if:
	(1)  the person would become likely to cause serious harm to 
another if the person fails to follow the treatment regimen on an 
Order to Receive Outpatient or Community-Based Treatment and 
Supervision;  and
	(2)  under an Order to Receive Outpatient or Community-Based 
Treatment and Supervision either:
	(A)  the person is likely to fail to comply with an available 
regimen of outpatient or community-based treatment, as determined 
by the person's insight into the need for medication, the number, 
severity, and controllability of side effects, the availability of 
support and treatment programs for the person from community 
members, and other appropriate considerations;  or
	(B)  a regimen of outpatient or community-based treatment 
will not be available to the person.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 831, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.           

Last modified: August 11, 2007