| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to conflicts of interest and discrimination policies for |
|
|
an ethics or medical committee review of an advance directive. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 166, Health and Safety |
|
|
Code, is amended by adding Section 166.0465 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 166.0465. ETHICS OR MEDICAL COMMITTEE POLICIES ON |
|
|
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND DISCRIMINATION. Each health care |
|
|
facility that provides review by an ethics or medical committee |
|
|
under Section 166.046 shall adopt and implement: |
|
|
(1) a policy to prevent financial and health care |
|
|
professional conflicts of interest that may arise during a review |
|
|
under that section; and |
|
|
(2) a policy to prohibit consideration of a patient's |
|
|
permanent physical or mental disability during a review under that |
|
|
section unless the disability is relevant in determining whether a |
|
|
medical or surgical intervention is medically appropriate. |
|
|
SECTION 2. (a) A health care facility shall adopt the |
|
|
policies required by Section 166.0465, Health and Safety Code, as |
|
|
added by this Act, not later than April 1, 2020. |
|
|
(b) The policies adopted under Section 166.0465, Health and |
|
|
Safety Code, as added by this Act, apply to an ethics or medical |
|
|
committee review conducted on or after April 1, 2020. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |