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.
Structure Texas Statutes
Civil Practice and Remedies Code
Title 6 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Chapter 137 - Declaration for Mental Health Treatment
Section 137.002. Persons Who May Execute Declaration for Mental Health Treatment; Period of Validity
Section 137.003. Execution and Witnesses; Execution and Acknowledgment Before Notary Public
Section 137.005. Limitation on Liability
Section 137.006. Discrimination Relating to Execution of Declaration for Mental Health Treatment
Section 137.007. Use and Effect of Declaration for Mental Health Treatment
Section 137.008. Disregard of Declaration for Mental Health Treatment
Section 137.009. Conflicting or Contrary Provisions
Section 137.011. Form of Declaration for Mental Health Treatment