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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.159

DISCRIMINATION RELATING TO EXECUTION OF MEDICAL POWER OF ATTORNEY

Known as the Advance Directives Act

The act spans §§ 166–166 (82 sections).

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 3.02(a), eff

A health or residential care provider, health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital service plan may not:

(1) charge a person a different rate solely because the person has executed a medical power of attorney;

(2) require a person to execute a medical power of attorney before:

(A) admitting the person to a hospital, nursing home, or residential care home;

(B) insuring the person; or

(C) allowing the person to receive health or residential care; or

(3) refuse health or residential care to a person solely because the person has executed a medical power of attorney.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.