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The Texas hospital-hold bill that was vetoed

Session law (SB 359 engrossed)

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| TX-2015-SB359-FACILITY-HOLD | 2015 SB 359 \[SUPERSEDED, Batch 18/D01: VETOED by Governor Abbott 2 Jun 2015; the text below describes the engrossed bill, never law. Original wording:\] (84R) added § 573.005: hospitals, emergency departments and freestanding ERs may detain a person up to four hours without an officer or court order when a physician believes there is no time to file; a notice of detention goes in the medical record; subsection (h): such detention "is not considered involuntary psychiatric hospitalization" for the handgun-license disqualification in Government Code § 411.172(e) | Session law (SB 359 engrossed) | — | A legislature designing an emergency hold so that it leaves no firearm-record trace — Mechanism 4 addressed by statute, in the opposite direction from California's § 8103 | VERIFIED |