Sec. 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.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 3.02(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991. Renumbered from Civil Practice & Remedies Code Sec. 135.018 and amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 1.05, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle H - Public Health Provisions
Chapter 166 - Advance Directives
Subchapter D. Medical Power of Attorney
Section 166.152. Scope and Duration of Authority
Section 166.153. Persons Who May Not Exercise Authority of Agent
Section 166.155. Revocation; Effect of Termination of Marriage
Section 166.156. Appointment of Guardian
Section 166.157. Disclosure of Medical Information
Section 166.158. Duty of Health or Residential Care Provider
Section 166.159. Discrimination Relating to Execution of Medical Power of Attorney
Section 166.160. Limitation on Liability
Section 166.161. Liability for Health Care Costs
Section 166.164. Form of Medical Power of Attorney
Section 166.166. Other Rights or Responsibilities Not Affected