By: Madla S.B. No. 1186
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to qualified patients under the Texas Natural Death Act.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subdivision (8), Section 672.002, Health and
1-4 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (8) "Qualified patient" means a patient with a terminal
1-6 condition that has been diagnosed and certified in writing by the
1-7 attending physician <and one other physician> who has <have>
1-8 personally examined the patient.
1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.