By West H.B. No. 1013
75R3316 SKB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to consent for emergency care.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 773.008, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 773.008. CONSENT FOR EMERGENCY CARE. Consent for
1-7 emergency care of an individual is not required if:
1-8 (1) the individual is:
1-9 (A) unable to communicate because of an injury,
1-10 accident, or illness or is unconscious; or [and]
1-11 (B) suffering from what reasonably appears to be
1-12 a life-threatening injury or illness;
1-13 (2) a court of record orders the treatment of an
1-14 individual who is in an imminent emergency to prevent the
1-15 individual's serious bodily injury or loss of life; or
1-16 (3) the individual is a minor who is suffering from
1-17 what reasonably appears to be a life-threatening injury or illness
1-18 and whose parents, managing or possessory conservator, or guardian
1-19 is not present.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.