(a) The department shall establish a system that identifies children with mental illness or intellectual disabilities in the department’s custody.
(b) Before a child with mental illness is discharged from the department’s custody under § 244.011(b), a department psychiatrist shall examine the child. The department shall refer a child requiring outpatient psychiatric treatment to the appropriate mental health authority. For a child requiring inpatient psychiatric treatment, the department shall file a sworn application for court-ordered mental health services, as provided in Subchapter C, Chapter 574, Health and Safety Code, if:
(1) the child is not receiving court-ordered mental health services; and
(2) the psychiatrist who examined the child determines that the child is a child with mental illness and the child meets at least one of the criteria listed in § 574.034 or 574.0345, Health and Safety Code.

(c) Before a child who is identified as having an intellectual disability under Chapter 593, Health and Safety Code, is discharged from the department’s custody under § 244.011(b), the department shall refer the child for intellectual disability services if the child is not receiving intellectual disability services.