Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.166

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 166.166 - Other Rights or Responsibilities Not Affected

This subchapter does not limit or impair any legal right or responsibility that any person, including a physician or health or residential care provider, may have to make or implement health care decisions on behalf of a person, provided that if an attending physician or health care facility is unwilling to honor a patient's advance directive or a treatment decision to provide life-sustaining treatment, life-sustaining treatment is required to be provided the patient, but only until a reasonable opportunity has been afforded for transfer of the patient to another physician or health care facility willing to comply with the advance directive or treatment decision.

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 166.166

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 3.02(a), eff. 8/26/1991. Renumbered from Civil Practice & Remedies Code Sec. 135.018 and amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 1.05, eff. 9/1/1999.