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Amend CSSB 1663 (Senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In the recital of SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line
21), strike "Subsection (d)" and substitute "Subsections (d) and
(e)".
(2) In SECTION 2 of the bill, in proposed Section
242.0663(a)(2), Health and Safety Code (page 1, line 26), between
"(2)" and "employs", insert "knowingly".
(3) In SECTION 2 of the bill, in proposed Section 242.0663,
Health and Safety Code (page 1, between lines 35 and 36), add the
following:
(e) It is not a violation of this section or any other law if
an institution, its owners, employees, agents, or physicians in
good faith attempt to resuscitate a resident because the
institution, its owners, employees, agents, or physicians who
practice in the institution reasonably believe that the process of
dying appears to be the result of an accident, unnatural causes, or
suspicious circumstances.