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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to revocation of do-not-resuscitate orders for patients |
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admitted to a health care facility or hospital. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Sections 166.205(a), (b), and (c), Health and |
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Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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(a) A physician providing direct care to a patient for whom |
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a DNR order is issued shall revoke the patient's DNR order if: |
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(1) the advance directive on which the DNR order is |
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based is revoked in accordance with this chapter; or |
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(2) the patient or the individual whose direction or |
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treatment decision was the basis for issuing the DNR order[, as |
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applicable, the patient's agent under a medical power of attorney |
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or the patient's legal guardian if the patient is incompetent: |
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[(1) effectively revokes an advance directive, in |
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accordance with Section 166.042, for which a DNR order is issued |
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under Section 166.203(a); or |
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[(2)] expresses to any person providing direct care to |
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the patient a revocation of consent to or intent to revoke a DNR |
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order issued under Section 166.203(a). |
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(b) A person providing direct care to a patient under the |
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supervision of a physician shall notify the physician of: |
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(1) the revocation of the advance directive described |
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by Subsection (a)(1); or |
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(2) the request to revoke a DNR order under Subsection |
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(a)(2) [(a)]. |
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(c) The [A patient's attending] physician who issued [may at |
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any time revoke] a DNR order issued under Section 166.203(a)(2) may |
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at any time revoke the DNR order. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |