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Health and Safety Code §578.008
In force on Mar 11, 2011 · this text took effect Sep 01, 1993 · amended later, effective Sep 01, 2021
USE OF INFORMATION; REPORT
(a) The department shall use the information received under Sections 578.006 and 578.007 to analyze, audit, and monitor the use of electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, pre-frontal sonic sound treatment, or any other convulsive or coma-producing therapy administered to treat mental illness.
(b) The department shall file annually with the governor and the presiding officer of each house of the legislature a written report summarizing by facility the information received under Sections 578.006 and 578.007 . If the therapy is administered by a private physician on an outpatient basis, the report must include that information but may not identify the physician. The department may not directly or indirectly identify in a report issued under this section a patient who received the therapy.
History: Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 5.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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- Effective Sep 01, 2021 · seen Oct 2021–Nov 2026
- Effective Sep 01, 1993 · seen Oct 2020–Aug 2021
Attorney General opinions that cite it
- GA-0877 (Mar 11, 2011): Responsibility for an individual who is the subject of an emergency detention order
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