Texas Mental Health Legislative Reform: Significant Achievements With More to Come

This Article will discuss recent legislative and judicial initiatives, as well as focus on next steps. In particular, Section II of this Article will analyze several key legislative enactments intended to address some of these issues from the last two regular legislative sessions. In turn, Section III will discuss the creation of the Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health. Finally, Section IV will highlight additional legislative proposals that are likely to come before the legislature in 2021.