Texas Health And Safety Code Title 7, Chapter 614 - Texas Correctional Office On Offenders With Medical Or Mental Impairments

• Texas Section 614.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. (2) "Case management" means a process by which a person or team responsible...
• Texas Section 614.002 - Composition Of Committee; Duties
  Sec. 614.002. COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEE; DUTIES. (a) The Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments is...
• Texas Section 614.003 - Texas Correctional Office On Offenders With Medical Or Mental Impairments; Director
  The Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments shall perform duties imposed on or assigned to the office by this chapter, other...
• Texas Section 614.0031 - Training Program
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the committee may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
• Texas Section 614.0032 - Special Duties Related To Medically Recommended Supervision; Determinations Regarding Competency Or Fitness To Proceed
  Sec. 614.0032. SPECIAL DUTIES RELATED TO MEDICALLY RECOMMENDED SUPERVISION; DETERMINATIONS REGARDING COMPETENCY OR FITNESS TO PROCEED. Text of subsection effective until January 01, 2017 (a)...
• Texas Section 614.004 - Terms
  The at-large members of the committee serve for staggered six-year terms with the terms of approximately one-third of the at-large members expiring on February 1...
• Texas Section 614.005 - Officers; Meetings
  (a) The governor shall designate a member of the committee as the presiding officer of the committee to serve in that capacity at the pleasure...
• Texas Section 614.006 - Applicability Of Certain Government Code Provisions
  (a) The provisions of Chapter 2110, Government Code, other than Section 2110.002(a), apply to the committee. (b) A member of the committee is not entitled...
• Texas Section 614.007 - Powers And Duties
  The office shall: (1) determine the status of offenders with medical or mental impairments in the state criminal justice system; (2) identify needed services for...
• Texas Section 614.008 - Community-based Diversion Program For Offenders With Medical Or Mental Impairments
  (a) The office may maintain at least one program in a county selected by the office to employ a cooperative community-based alternative system to divert...
• Texas Section 614.009 - Biennial Report
  Not later than February 1 of each odd-numbered year, the office shall present to the board and file with the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker...
• Texas Section 614.0101 - Public Access
  The committee shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the committee and to speak on any...
• Texas Section 614.0102 - Complaints
  (a) The office shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the office. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...
• Texas Section 614.013 - Continuity Of Care For Offenders With Mental Impairments
  (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Department of State Health Services, the bureau of identification and records of the Department of Public Safety,...
• Texas Section 614.014 - Continuity Of Care For Elderly Offenders
  (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a memorandum of understanding that establishes the respective responsibilities of...
• Texas Section 614.015 - Continuity Of Care For Offenders With Physical Disabilities, Terminal Illnesses, Or Significant Illnesses
  (a) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a memorandum of understanding that establishes the respective responsibilities of...
• Texas Section 614.016 - Continuity Of Care For Certain Offenders By Law Enforcement And Jails
  (a) The office, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the bureau of identification and records of the Department of Public Safety, and the Commission on...
• Texas Section 614.017 - Exchange Of Information
  (a) An agency shall: (1) accept information relating to a special needs offender or a juvenile with a mental impairment that is sent to the...
• Texas Section 614.018 - Continuity Of Care For Juveniles With Mental Impairments
  (a) The Texas Juvenile Justice Department, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of State Health Services, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, the...
• Texas Section 614.019 - Programs For Juveniles
  (a) The office, in cooperation with the Department of State Health Services, the Department of Family and Protective Services, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and...
• Texas Section 614.020 - Youth Assertive Community Treatment Program
  (a) The office may establish and maintain in Tarrant County an assertive community treatment program to provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to individuals in...
• Texas Section 614.0205 - Appropriation Contingency
  The office is required to provide a service or program under Section 614.019(a) or 614.020 only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose....
• Texas Section 614.021 - Services For Wrongfully Imprisoned Persons
  (a) In this section, "wrongfully imprisoned person" has the meaning assigned by Section 501.101, Government Code. (b) The office shall develop a plan to use...

Last modified: September 28, 2016