Discrimination Relating To Execution of Declaration For Mental Health Treatment

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.