Texas Civil Practice And Remedies Code Title 6, Chapter 137 - Declaration For Mental Health Treatment

• Texas Section 137.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older or a person under 18 years of age who has had...
• Texas Section 137.002 - Persons Who May Execute Declaration For Mental Health Treatment; Period Of Validity
  (a) An adult who is not incapacitated may execute a declaration for mental health treatment. The preferences or instructions may include consent to or refusal...
• Texas Section 137.003 - Execution And Witnesses
  (a) A declaration for mental health treatment must be signed by the principal in the presence of two or more subscribing witnesses. (b) A witness...
• Texas Section 137.004 - Health Care Provider To Act In Accordance With Declaration For Mental Health Treatment
  A physician or other health care provider shall act in accordance with the declaration for mental health treatment when the principal has been found to...
• Texas Section 137.005 - Limitation On Liability
  (a) An attending physician, health or residential care provider, or person acting for or under an attending physician's or health or residential care provider's control...
• Texas Section 137.006 - Discrimination Relating To Execution Of Declaration For Mental Health Treatment
  A health or residential care provider, health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital service plan may not:...
• Texas Section 137.007 - Use And Effect Of Declaration For Mental Health Treatment
  (a) On being presented with a declaration for mental health treatment, a physician or other health care provider shall make the declaration a part of...
• Texas Section 137.008 - Disregard Of Declaration For Mental Health Treatment
  (a) A physician or other health care provider may subject the principal to mental health treatment in a manner contrary to the principal's wishes as...
• Texas Section 137.009 - Conflicting Or Contrary Provisions
  (a) Mental health treatment instructions contained in a declaration executed in accordance with this chapter supersede any contrary or conflicting instructions given by: (1) a...
• Texas Section 137.010 - Revocation
  (a) A declaration for mental health treatment is revoked when a principal who is not incapacitated: (1) notifies a licensed or certified health or residential...
• Texas Section 137.011 - Form Of Declaration For Mental Health Treatment
  The declaration for mental health treatment must be in substantially the following form: DECLARATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT I, __________________, being an adult of sound...

Last modified: September 28, 2016