Sec. 534.016.  SCREENING AND CONTINUING CARE SERVICES.  (a)  A community center shall provide screening services for:
(1)  a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and
(2)  a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.
(b)  A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.
(c)  Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.
(d)  The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if:
(1)  local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or
(2)  the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.