Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 577.005. INVESTIGATION AND LICENSE ISSUANCE. (a) The department shall conduct an investigation as considered necessary after receiving the proper license application and the required fees. (b) The department shall issue a license if it finds that the premises are suitable an…

Sec. 577.006. FEES. (a) The department shall charge each hospital every two years a license fee for an initial license or a license renewal. (b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt the fees authorized by Subsection (a) in accordance with Section 12.0111 and according t…

Sec. 577.007. CHANGE IN BED CAPACITY. A mental hospital or mental health facility may increase the bed capacity authorized by the license at any time with the department's approval and may decrease the capacity at any time by notifying the department. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg…

Sec. 577.008. REQUIREMENT OF PHYSICIAN IN CHARGE. Each licensed private mental hospital shall be in the charge of a physician who has at least three years experience as a physician in psychiatry in a mental hospital or who is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neur…

Sec. 577.009. LIMITATION ON CERTAIN CONTRACTS. A community center or other entity the department designates to provide mental health services may not contract with a mental health facility to provide court-ordered mental health services unless the facility is licensed by the depa…

Sec. 577.010. RULES AND STANDARDS. (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules and standards the executive commissioner considers necessary and appropriate to ensure the proper care and treatment of patients in a private mental hospital or mental health facility required to …

Sec. 577.0101. NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER OR REFERRAL. (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules governing the transfer or referral of a patient from a private mental hospital to an inpatient mental health facility. (b) The rules must provide that before a private mental hos…

Sec. 577.011. RECORDS AND REPORTS. The department may require a license holder to make annual, periodical, or special reports to the department and to keep the records the department considers necessary to ensure compliance with this subtitle and the department's rules and standa…

Sec. 577.012. DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS. (a) A private mental hospital licensed under this chapter may authorize the disposal of any medical record on or after the 10th anniversary of the date on which the patient who is the subject of the record was last treated in the hospital. (b…

Sec. 577.013. INVESTIGATIONS. (a) The department may make investigations it considers necessary and proper to obtain compliance with this subtitle and the department's rules and standards. (b) An agent of the department may at any reasonable time enter the premises of a private m…

Sec. 577.014. OATHS. The department or its agent may administer oaths, receive evidence, and examine witnesses in conducting an investigation or other proceeding under this chapter. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.

Sec. 577.015. SUBPOENAS. (a) The department or its agent, in conducting an investigation or other proceeding under this chapter, may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documents or records anywhere in this state that are rela…

Sec. 577.016. DENIAL, SUSPENSION, PROBATION, OR REVOCATION OF LICENSE. (a) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke a license if the department finds that the applicant or licensee has substantially failed to comply with: (1) department rules; (2) this subtitle; or (3) Chapter…

Sec. 577.017. HEARINGS. (a) The department's legal staff may participate in a hearing under this chapter. (b) The hearing proceedings shall be recorded in a form that can be transcribed if notice of appeal is filed. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 199…

Sec. 577.018. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT DECISION. (a) An applicant or license holder may appeal from a department decision by filing notice of appeal in the district court of Travis County and with the department not later than the 30th day after receiving a copy of the depar…

Sec. 577.019. INJUNCTION. (a) The department, in the name of the state, may maintain an action in a district court of Travis County or in the county in which the violation occurs for an injunction or other process against any person to restrain the person from operating a mental …