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Texas Family Code - Section 54.0408. Referral Of Child Exiting Probation To Mental Health Or Mental Retardation Authority

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§ 54.0408. REFERRAL OF CHILD EXITING PROBATION TO MENTAL 
HEALTH OR MENTAL RETARDATION AUTHORITY.   A juvenile probation 
officer shall refer a child who has been determined to have a mental 
illness or mental retardation to an appropriate local mental health 
or mental retardation authority at least three months before the 
child is to complete the child's juvenile probation term unless the 
child is currently receiving treatment from the local mental health 
or mental retardation authority of the county in which the child 
resides.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 949, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.          

Last modified: August 11, 2007