Texas Health And Safety Code Title 7, Chapter 591 - General Provisions
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 591.001 - Short Title
This subtitle may be cited as the Persons with an Intellectual Disability Act. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
- Texas Section 591.002 - Purpose
(a) It is the public policy of this state that persons with an intellectual disability have the opportunity to develop to the fullest extent possible...
- Texas Section 591.003 - Definitions
In this subtitle: (1) "Adaptive behavior" means the effectiveness with or degree to which a person meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility...
- Texas Section 591.004 - Rules
The executive commissioner by rule shall ensure the implementation of this subtitle. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,...
- Texas Section 591.005 - Least Restrictive Alternative
The least restrictive alternative is: (1) the available program or facility that is the least confining for a client's condition; and (2) the service and...
SUBCHAPTER B DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT
- Texas Section 591.006 - Consent
(a) Consent given by a person is legally adequate if the person: (1) is not a minor and has not been adjudicated incompetent to manage...
- Texas Section 591.011 - Department Responsibilities
(a) Subject to the executive commissioner's authority to adopt rules and policies, the department shall make all reasonable efforts consistent with available resources to: (1)...
SUBCHAPTER C PENALTIES AND REMEDIES
- Texas Section 591.013 - Long-range Plan
(a) The commission shall develop a long-range plan for services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (b) The executive commissioner shall appoint the necessary...
- Texas Section 591.021 - Criminal Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly causes, conspires with another to cause, or assists another to cause the unlawful...
- Texas Section 591.022 - Civil Penalty
(a) A person who intentionally violates the rights guaranteed by this subtitle to a person with an intellectual disability is liable to the person injured...
- Texas Section 591.023 - Injunctive Relief; Civil Penalty
(a) A district court, in an action brought in the name of the state by the state attorney general or a district or county attorney...
- Texas Section 591.024 - Civil Action Against Department Employee
(a) The state attorney general shall provide legal counsel to represent a department employee in a civil action brought against the person under this subtitle...
- Texas Section 591.025 - Liability
An officer or employee of the department or a community center, acting reasonably within the scope of the person's employment and in good faith, is...
Last modified: September 28, 2016