By: Madla S.B. No. 1186
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the Texas Natural Death Act
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 672.002 of Chapter 672. Natural Death
1-4 Act is amended to read as follows:
1-5 Section 672.002 (8) "Qualified patient" means a patient with
1-6 a terminal condition that has been diagnosed and certified in
1-7 writing by the attending physician <and one other physician> who
1-8 <have> has 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.