By: Hughes, et al. S.B. No. 2089
(Parker, Raymond, Toth, Miller, et al.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a health care facility's policies regarding advance
directives or health care or treatment decisions made by or on
behalf of patients.
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 DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION. Each health
care facility that provides review by an ethics or medical
committee under Section 166.046 shall adopt and implement a policy
on:
(1) preventing substantial financial and health care
professional conflicts of interest that may arise during the
review; and
(2) prohibiting consideration of a patient's permanent
physical or mental disability during the review 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
policy required by Section 166.0465, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, not later than April 1, 2020.
(b) A policy adopted under Section 166.0465, Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an ethics or
medical committee review conducted on or after April 1, 2020.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.