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 & Safety Code § 166.166
OTHER RIGHTS OR RESPONSIBILITIES NOT AFFECTED
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
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.