1. (a) The department, with input from the court of criminal appeals and the forensic director appointed under Section 532.013, shall develop and maintain a training curriculum for judges and attorneys that provides information on inpatient and outpatient treatment alternatives to inpatient commitment to a state hospital for a patient whom a court is ordering to receive mental health services:

   1. (1) to attain competency to stand trial under Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
   2. (2) following an acquittal by reason of insanity under Chapter 46C, Code of Criminal Procedure.
2. (b) The training curriculum developed and maintained under Subsection (a) must include a guide to treatment alternatives, other than inpatient treatment at a state hospital, from which a patient described by Subsection (a) may receive mental health services.

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 207 (S.B. 1507), Sec. 3, eff. May 28, 2015.