Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 577A.001
Definitions

In this chapter:

(1)

“Commission” means the Health and Human Services Commission.

(2)

“Executive commissioner” means the executive commissioner of the commission.

(3)

“Psychiatric residential youth treatment facility” means a private facility that provides psychiatric health treatments and services in a residential, nonhospital setting exclusively to individuals who are 21 years of age or younger and is licensed as a general residential operation under Chapter 42 (Regulation of Certain Facilities, Homes, and Agencies that Provide Child-care Services), Human Resources Code. The term includes a facility that provides room and board.

(4)

“Severe emotional disturbance” means a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to result in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits an individual’s role or ability to function in family, school, or community activities.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1032 (H.B. 3121), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.

Source: Section 577A.001 — Definitions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­577A.­htm#577A.­001 (accessed May 26, 2025).

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