Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 404 - PROTECTION OF CLIENTS AND STAFF-MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Subchapter E - RIGHTS OF PERSONS RECEIVING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Section 404.156 - Additional Rights of Persons Receiving Residential Mental Health Services at Department Facilities
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
In addition to the rights listed in § 404.155 of this title (relating to Rights of Persons Receiving Residential Mental Health Services), persons receiving residential mental health services at department facilities have the following rights.
(1) The right to be advised of the availability of trust fund accounts and other safekeeping for funds and articles of value. This right shall extend to the family of the person receiving services, who shall be informed of the existence of the trust fund as a means of protecting personal funds for the person served, and who shall be advised to send all monies, either checks or cash, to the cashier, and not to the individual or ward employees. Families shall be informed that the department facility is not responsible for funds mailed directly to the person served. The method of advising persons served and their families of this right is to be determined by each department facility.
(2) The right of each individual admitted to an inpatient program of a department facility to have the state pay the cost of transportation home upon discharge or furlough unless the individual or someone responsible for the individual is able to do so.
(3) The right of each individual admitted to an inpatient program of a department facility other than for substance abuse to be informed in writing at admission and upon discharge of the existence of the court monitor of the RAJ v. Jones settlement and to be informed of how to contact the monitor's office, the plaintiff's counsel, and organizations which provide free legal assistance.
