Texas Health and Safety Code 841.082 – Commitment Requirements
(a) Before entering an order directing a person‘s civil commitment, the judge shall impose on the person requirements necessary to ensure the person’s compliance with treatment and supervision and to protect the community. The requirements shall include:
(1) requiring the person to reside where instructed by the office;
(2) prohibiting the person’s contact with a victim of the person;
(3) requiring the person’s participation in and compliance with the sex offender treatment program provided by the office and compliance with all written requirements imposed by the office;
(4) requiring the person to submit to appropriate supervision and:
(A) submit to tracking under a particular type of tracking service, if the person:
(i) while residing at a civil commitment center, leaves the center for any reason;
(ii) is in one of the two most restrictive tiers of treatment, as determined by the office;
(iii) is on disciplinary status, as determined by the office; or
(iv) resides in the community; and
(B) if required to submit to tracking under Paragraph (A), refrain from tampering with, altering, modifying, obstructing, removing, or manipulating the tracking equipment; and
(5) prohibiting the person from leaving the state without prior authorization from the office.
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 841.082
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Written: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(b) A tracking service to which a person is required to submit under Subsection (a)(4) must:
(1) track the person’s location in real time;
(2) be able to provide a real-time report of the person’s location to the office on request; and
(3) periodically provide a cumulative report of the person’s location to the office.
(c) The judge shall provide a copy of the requirements imposed under Subsection (a) to the person and to the office. The office shall provide a copy of those requirements to the case manager and to the service providers.
(d) The committing court retains jurisdiction of the case with respect to a proceeding conducted under this subchapter, other than a criminal proceeding involving an offense under § 841.085, or to a civil commitment proceeding conducted under Subchapters F and G.
(e) The requirements imposed under Subsection (a) may be modified by the committing court at any time after notice to each affected party to the proceedings and a hearing.