| 1 | 1 | | By: Frank H.B. No. 2943 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to revocation of do-not-resuscitate orders for patients |
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| 7 | 7 | | admitted to a health care facility or hospital. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Sections 166.205(a), (b), and (c), Health and |
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| 10 | 10 | | Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (a) A physician providing direct care to a patient for whom |
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| 12 | 12 | | a DNR order is issued shall revoke the patient's DNR order if: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (1) the advance directive on which the DNR order is |
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| 14 | 14 | | based is revoked in accordance with this chapter; or |
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| 15 | 15 | | (2) the patient or the individual whose direction or |
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| 16 | 16 | | treatment decision was the basis for issuing the DNR order[, as |
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| 17 | 17 | | applicable, the patient's agent under a medical power of attorney |
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| 18 | 18 | | or the patient's legal guardian if the patient is incompetent: |
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| 19 | 19 | | [(1) effectively revokes an advance directive, in |
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| 20 | 20 | | accordance with Section 166.042, for which a DNR order is issued |
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| 21 | 21 | | under Section 166.203(a); or |
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| 22 | 22 | | [(2)] expresses to any person providing direct care to |
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| 23 | 23 | | the patient a revocation of consent to or intent to revoke a DNR |
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| 24 | 24 | | order issued under Section 166.203(a). |
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| 25 | 25 | | (b) A person providing direct care to a patient under the |
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| 26 | 26 | | supervision of a physician shall notify the physician of: |
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| 27 | 27 | | (1) the revocation of the advance directive described |
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| 28 | 28 | | by Subsection (a)(1); or |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2) the request to revoke a DNR order under Subsection |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a)(2) [(a)]. |
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| 31 | 31 | | (c) The [A patient's attending] physician who issued [may at |
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| 32 | 32 | | any time revoke] a DNR order issued under Section 166.203(a)(2) may |
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| 33 | 33 | | at any time revoke the DNR order. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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