HB2035

HB2035 requires a chemical-dependency treatment facility that refuses a minor’s voluntary admission to give written notice to the parent, managing conservator or guardian who requested that admission. The notice must explain that person’s right to seek voluntary treatment and rehabilitation for the minor at another facility. Final law.

The duty applies to refusals under Health and Safety Code 462.022. In that section, a minor is someone younger than 18 whose legal disabilities of minority have not been removed. Existing requirements concerning appropriate facilities and their admission policies remain. The new provision does not force the first facility—or another facility—to admit the child, guarantee a bed or payment, or require a particular referral list. Health and Safety Code 462.022.

The section already allows a minor aged 16 or older to request admission without parental consent and contains separate consent rules for a state-affiliated guardian or managing conservator. HB2035 does not rewrite those rules. Its notice language identifies the parent, managing conservator or guardian requesting admission, rather than creating a general parental-notification mandate for every self-request by an older minor. Section 462.022(a)–(e).

The law took effect September 1, 2025. Its two sections add the notice obligation and effective date; they do not establish a new funding program or a specific number of hours for delivering the notice. Final law, Sections 1–2.