Sec. 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:
(1)  charge a person a different rate solely because the person has executed a declaration for mental health treatment;
(2)  require a person to execute a declaration for mental health treatment before:
(A)  admitting the person to a hospital, nursing home, or residential care home;
(B)  insuring the person;  or
(C)  allowing the person to receive health or residential care;
(3)  refuse health or residential care to a person solely because the person has executed a declaration for mental health treatment;  or
(4)  discharge the person solely because the person has or has not executed a declaration for mental health treatment.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1318, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.