82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1481, Chapter 272 Page: 2 of 5
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H.B. No. 1481
1 (4) mentally ill;
2 (5) mentally retarded ;
3 (6) handicapped;
4 (7) cripple; and
5 (8) crippled.
6 (b) In enacting or revising statutes or resolutions, the
7 legislature and the Texas Legislative Council are directed to
8 replace, as appropriate, terms and phrases listed by Subsection (a)
9 with the following preferred phrases or appropriate variations of
10 those phrases:
11 (1) "persons with disabilities";
12 - (2) "persons with developmental disabilities";
13 (3) "persons with mental illness"; and
14 (4) "persons with intellectual disabilities."
15 (c). A statute or resolution is not invalid solely because it
16 does not employ this section's preferred phrases.
17 SECTION 2. Chapter 325, Government Code, is amended by
18 adding Section 325.0123 to read as follows:
19 Sec. 325.0123. REVIEW OF CERTAIN AGENCIES FOR RESPECTFUL
20 LANGUAGE. (a) As part of its review of a health and human services
21 agency, the commission shall consider and make recommendations
22 regarding the statutory revisions necessary to use the phrase
23 "intellectual disability" instead of "mental retardation" and to
24 use the phrase "person with intellectual disability" instead of
25 "person with mental retardation."
26 (b) As part of its review of an agency, the commission shall
27 consider and recommend, as appropriate, statutory revisions in2
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1481, Chapter 272, legislative document, June 17, 2011; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth311032/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.