In this chapter:

1. (1) "Board" means the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
2. (2) "Case management" means a process by which a person or team responsible for establishing and continuously maintaining contact with a person with mental illness, a developmental disability, or mental retardation provides that person with access to services required by the person and ensures the coordinated delivery of those services to the person.
3. (3) "Committee" means the Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments.

4. (4) "Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability that:

   1. (A) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or a combination of physical and mental impairments;
   2. (B) is manifested before the person reaches 22 years of age;
   3. (C) is likely to continue indefinitely;

   4. (D) results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

      1. (i) self-care;
      2. (ii) self-direction;
      3. (iii) learning;
      4. (iv) receptive and expressive language;
      5. (v) mobility;
      6. (vi) capacity for independent living; or
      7. (vii) economic self-sufficiency; and
   5. (E) reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services of extended or lifelong duration that are individually planned and coordinated.
5. (5) "Mental illness" has the meaning assigned by Section 571.003.
6. (6) "Mental impairment" means a mental illness, mental retardation, or a developmental disability.
7. (7) "Mental retardation" has the meaning assigned by Section 591.003.

8. (8) "Offender with a medical or mental impairment" means a juvenile or adult who is arrested or charged with a criminal offense and who:

   1. (A) has a mental impairment; or
   2. (B) is elderly, physically disabled, terminally ill, or significantly ill.
9. (9) "Office" means the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments.
10. (10) "Person with mental retardation" means a juvenile or adult with mental retardation that is not a mental disorder who, because of the mental deficit, requires special training, education, supervision, treatment, care, or control in the person's home or community or in a private or state school for persons with mental retardation.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.

Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 107, Sec. 6.52, eff. Aug. 30, 1993;

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 856, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.