Texas Occupations Code - Section 110.001. Definitions
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§ 110.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Texas Board of Health.
(2) "Council" means the Council on Sex Offender
Treatment.
(3) "Department" means the Texas Department of Health.
(3-a) "Executive director" means the executive
director of the council.
(4) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1089, §
31(1).
(5) "Rehabilitation service" means a mental health
treatment or medical intervention program designed to treat or
remedy a sex offender's mental or medical problem that may relate or
contribute to the sex offender's criminal or paraphiliac problem.
(6) "Sex offender" means a person who:
(A) is convicted of committing or adjudicated to
have committed a sex crime under state or federal law;
(B) is awarded deferred adjudication for a sex
crime under state or federal law;
(C) admits to having violated state or federal
law with regard to sexual conduct; or
(D) experiences or evidences a paraphiliac
disorder as defined by the Revised Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual, including any subsequent revision of that manual.
(7) "Sex offender treatment provider" means a person,
licensed or certified to practice in this state, including a
physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, licensed professional
counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist, or social
worker, who provides mental health or medical services for
rehabilitation of sex offenders.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, § 14.005(a), eff. Sept.
1, 2003. Amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1089, § 3, eff.
Sept. 1, 2005.
Section: 109.001 109.002 109.003 109.051 109.052 109.053 109.054 110.001 110.051 110.052 110.053 110.054 110.055 110.056 110.057
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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