Texas criminal code — chapter
Chapter 55: PROCEEDINGS CONCERNING CHILDREN WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
Chapter 55 of Title 3: JUVENILE JUSTICE CODE, Texas Family Code. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Chapter 55
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.01 — Definitions
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.02 — Mental health and intellectual disability jurisdiction
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.03 — Standards of care
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.04 — Forensic mental examination
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.05 — Criteria for court-ordered mental health services for child
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.06 — Criteria for court-ordered residential intellectual disability services for child
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.11 — Mental illness determination; examination
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.12 — Initiation of proceedings for court-ordered mental health services
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.15 — Standards of care; expiration of court order for mental health services
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.16 — Order for mental health services; stay of proceedings
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.17 — Mental health services not ordered; dissolution of stay
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.18 — Discharge from court-ordered inpatient or outpatient mental health services before reaching 18 years of age
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.19 — Discretionary transfer to criminal court on 18th birthday
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.31 — Unfitness to proceed determination; examination
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.32 — Hearing on issue of fitness to proceed
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.33 — Proceedings following finding of unfitness to proceed
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.34 — Transportation to and from facility
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.35 — Information required to be sent to facility or alternative setting; report to court
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.36 — Report that child is fit to proceed; hearing on objection
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.37 — Report that child is unfit to proceed as a result of mental illness; initiation of proceedings for court-ordered mental health services
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.40 — Report that child is unfit to proceed as a result of intellectual disability
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.43 — Restoration hearing
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.44 — Discretionary transfer to criminal court on 18th birthday of child
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.45 — Standards of care; notice of release or furlough
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.51 — Lack of responsibility for conduct determination; examination
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.52 — Proceedings following finding of lack of responsibility for conduct
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.53 — Transportation to and from facility
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.54 — Information required to be sent to facility or alternative setting; report to court
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.55 — Report that child does not have mental illness or intellectual disability; hearing on objection
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.56 — Report that child has mental illness; initiation of proceedings for court-ordered mental health services
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.59 — Report that child has intellectual disability; initiation of proceedings for court-ordered residential intellectual disability services
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.65 — Proceedings in juvenile court for child with mental illness
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.66 — Proceedings in juvenile court for child found unfit to proceed or lacking responsibility for conduct due to mental illness
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.67 — Proceedings in juvenile court for child found unfit to proceed or lacking responsibility for conduct due to intellectual disability
- Tex. Fam. Code § 55.68 — Referral for proceedings for child with mental illness or child found unfit to proceed or lacking responsibility for conduct due to mental illness or intellectual disability
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