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