1. (a) General. The provisions of Subchapters E-J of this chapter govern the procedures relating to the civil commitment of sexually violent predators in the State of Texas and the development of a case management system, which provides appropriate and necessary treatment and supervision.
2. (b) Construction. These sections cover definitions, criteria for case managers, treatment providers, and biennial examination experts; guidelines for the supervised housing of sexually violent predators; outpatient treatment plans and standards of care; civil commitment requirements, supervision and tracking services; the exchange and release of information relating to sexually violent predators; commitment review procedures; petitions for release; and immunity from liability for good faith conduct.
3. (c) History. The legislature finds that a small but extremely dangerous group of sexually violent predators exist and that those predators have a behavioral abnormality that is not amenable to traditional mental illness treatment modalities and that makes the predators likely to engage in repeated predatory acts of sexual violence. The legislature finds that the existing involuntary commitment provisions of Health and Safety Code, §571.001 et seq., Subtitle C, Title 7, are inadequate to address the risk of repeated predatory behavior that sexually violent predators pose to society. The legislature further finds that treatment modalities for sexually violent predators are different from the traditional treatment modalities for persons appropriate for involuntary commitment under Subtitle C, Title 7. The legislature finds that a civil commitment procedure for the long-term supervision and treatment of sexually violent predators is necessary and in the interest of the state.

Source Note:The provisions of this §810.121 adopted to be effective September 12, 2004, 29 TexReg 8531; amended to be effective April 24, 2011, 36 TexReg 2396; transferred effective September 1, 2011, as published in the Texas Register December 9, 2011, 36 TexReg 8391.