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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 510PRIVATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS
SUBCHAPTER EENFORCEMENT
RULE §510.81Survey and Investigation Procedures

  (2) All information and materials obtained or compiled by the department in connection with a complaint and investigation concerning a facility licensed under this chapter are confidential and not subject to disclosure, discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion for their release to anyone other than the department or its employees or agents involved in the enforcement action except that this information may be disclosed to:

    (A) persons involved with the department in the enforcement action against the facility;

    (B) the facility that is the subject of the enforcement action, or the facility's authorized representative;

    (C) appropriate state or federal agencies that are authorized to inspect, survey, or investigate licensed mental facility services;

    (D) law enforcement agencies; and

    (E) persons engaged in bona fide research, if all individual-identifying information and information identifying the facility has been deleted.

  (3) The following information is subject to disclosure in accordance with Government Code, §552.001 et seq.

    (A) a notice of alleged violation against the facility, which notice shall include the provisions of law which the facility is alleged to have violated, and the nature of the alleged violation;

    (B) the pleadings in the administrative proceeding; and

    (C) final decision or order by the department.


Source Note: The provisions of this §510.81 adopted to be effective January 1, 2004, 28 TexReg 5154; amended to be effective May 9, 2004, 29 TexReg 4159; transferred effective June 1, 2019, as published in the Texas Register May 17, 2019, 44 TexReg 2469

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