Bill Text: TX HB577 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to emergency prehospital care provided by emergency services personnel.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB577-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to emergency prehospital care provided by emergency services personnel.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB577-Introduced.html
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By: McClendon | H.B. No. 577 |
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relating to emergency prehospital care provided by emergency | ||
services personnel. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 166, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 166.054 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 166.054. COMPLIANCE WITH WRITTEN DIRECTIVE; CERTAIN | ||
EMERGENCY PREHOSPITAL CARE SITUATIONS. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Emergency medical services personnel" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 773.003. | ||
(2) "Emergency prehospital care" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 773.003. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, | ||
emergency medical services personnel who are providing emergency | ||
prehospital care to a person are not required to review, examine, | ||
interpret, or honor a person's written directive, including a | ||
written directive in the form prescribed by Section 166.033. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 773.016. DUTIES OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES | ||
PERSONNEL; CERTAIN EMERGENCY PREHOSPITAL CARE SITUATIONS. (a) In | ||
this section, "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 166.002. | ||
(b) Emergency medical services personnel who are providing | ||
emergency prehospital care to a person are subject to Chapter 166, | ||
including Section 166.054. | ||
(c) A physician who is present while a person is receiving | ||
emergency prehospital care may order the termination of | ||
cardiopulmonary resuscitation if, based on the physician's | ||
professional medical judgment, the physician determines that | ||
resuscitation should be discontinued. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |