Section 42A.506 - Community Supervision for Defendant With Mental Impairment If the judge places a defendant on community supervision and the defendant is determined to be a person with mental illness or a person with an intellectual disability, as provided by Article 16.22 or Chapter 46B or in a psychological evaluation conducted under Article 42A.253(a)(6), the judge may require the defendant as a condition of community supervision to submit to outpatient or inpatient mental health or intellectual disability treatment if:
(1) the defendant's: (A) mental impairment is chronic in nature; or(B) ability to function independently will continue to deteriorate if the defendant does not receive mental health or intellectual disability services; and(2) the judge determines, in consultation with a local mental health or intellectual disability services provider, that mental health or intellectual disability services, as appropriate, are available for the defendant through:(A) the Department of State Health Services or the Department of Aging and Disability Services under Section 534.053, Health and Safety Code; or(B) another mental health or intellectual disability services provider.Tex. Code Crim. Proc. § 42A.506
Added by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 770,Sec. 1.01, eff. 1/1/2017.