Sec. 144.006.  COLLATERAL EFFECTS OF ORDER.  (a)  A former mental health patient who successfully petitions for an order under this chapter and a facility or health care provider, or the owner, operator, parent, or affiliate of a facility or health care provider, that is subject to an order under this chapter may deny:
(1)  the existence of any record subject to the order;
(2)  the existence of the order itself;
(3)  the occurrence of the former mental patient's admission to a mental health facility if the records of the admission are subject to the order;  and
(4)  the occurrence of any treatment related to the admission if the records of the admission are subject to the order.
(b)  A former mental health patient who makes a denial under Subsection (a) or a facility or health care provider, or the owner, operator, parent, or affiliate of a facility or health care provider, that is subject to an order under this chapter and that makes a denial under Subsection (a) is not liable for a civil or criminal penalty for perjury.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1295, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.