SECTION 307.101. Purpose  


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  • The purpose of this subchapter is to provide standards for jail-based competency restoration services in pilot and county-based programs, as required by the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 46B, relating to Incompetency to Stand Trial. The programs include:

    (1) mental health services;

    (2) intellectual disability services;

    (3) co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorder treatment services;

    (4) competency restoration education in the county jail for an individual found incompetent to stand trial; and

    (5) discharge planning services.

Source Note: The provisions of this §307.101 adopted to be effective August 6, 2018, 43 TexReg 5091; transferred effective February 15, 2020, as published in the Texas Register January 17, 2020, 45 TexReg 470