Section 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.Tex. Civ. Prac. and Rem. Code § 137.006
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1318, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1997.