Tex. Fam. Code Section 55.01
Definitions

In this chapter:

(1)

“Adaptive behavior” and “intellectual disability” have the meanings assigned by Section 591.003 (Definitions), Health and Safety Code.

(2)

“Child with an intellectual disability” means a child determined by a physician or psychologist licensed in this state to have subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior.

(3)

“Child with mental illness” means a child determined by a physician or psychologist licensed in this state to have a mental illness.

(4)

“Interdisciplinary team” means a group of intellectual disability professionals and paraprofessionals who assess the treatment, training, and habilitation needs of a person with an intellectual disability and make recommendations for services for that person.

(5)

“Least restrictive appropriate setting” means the treatment or service setting closest to the child’s home that provides the child with the greatest probability of improvement and is no more restrictive of the child’s physical or social liberties than is necessary to provide the child with the most effective treatment or services and to protect adequately against any danger the child poses to self or others.

(6)

“Mental illness” has the meaning assigned by Section 571.003 (Definitions), Health and Safety Code.

(7)

“Restoration classes” means curriculum-based educational sessions a child attends to assist in restoring the child’s fitness to proceed, including the child’s capacity to understand the proceedings in juvenile court and to assist in the child’s own defense.

(8)

“Subaverage general intellectual functioning” means intelligence that is measured on standardized psychometric instruments of two or more standard deviations below the age-group mean for the instruments used.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1477, Sec. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.002, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1166 (S.B. 1585), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.

Source: Section 55.01 — Definitions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.­55.­htm#55.­01 (accessed May 4, 2024).

55.01
Definitions 55.02
Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Jurisdiction 55.03
Standards of Care 55.04
Forensic Mental Examination 55.05
Criteria for Court-ordered Mental Health Services for Child 55.06
Criteria for Court-ordered Residential Intellectual Disability Services for Child 55.11
Mental Illness Determination 55.12
Initiation of Proceedings for Court-ordered Mental Health Services 55.15
Standards of Care 55.16
Order for Mental Health Services 55.17
Mental Health Services Not Ordered 55.31
Unfitness to Proceed Determination 55.32
Hearing on Issue of Fitness to Proceed 55.33
Proceedings Following Finding of Unfitness to Proceed 55.34
Transportation to and from Facility 55.35
Information Required to Be Sent to Facility or Alternative Setting 55.36
Report that Child Is Fit to Proceed 55.37
Report that Child Is Unfit to Proceed as a Result of Mental Illness 55.40
Report that Child Is Unfit to Proceed as a Result of Intellectual Disability 55.43
Restoration Hearing 55.45
Standards of Care 55.51
Lack of Responsibility for Conduct Determination 55.52
Proceedings Following Finding of Lack of Responsibility for Conduct 55.53
Transportation to and from Facility 55.54
Information Required to Be Sent to Facility or Alternative Setting 55.55
Report that Child Does Not Have Mental Illness or Intellectual Disability 55.56
Report that Child Has Mental Illness 55.59
Report that Child Has Intellectual Disability 55.65
Proceedings in Juvenile Court for Child with Mental Illness 55.66
Proceedings in Juvenile Court for Child Found Unfit to Proceed or Lacking Responsibility for Conduct Due to Mental Illness 55.67
Proceedings in Juvenile Court for Child Found Unfit to Proceed or Lacking Responsibility for Conduct Due to Intellectual Disability 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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Accessed:
May 4, 2024

§ 55.01’s source at texas​.gov