Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.006 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EFFECT OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVE ON INSURANCE POLICY AND PREMIUMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The fact that a person has executed or issued an advance directive does not:
(1) restrict, inhibit, or impair in any manner the sale, procurement, or issuance of a life insurance policy to that person; or
(2) modify the terms of an existing life insurance policy.
(b) Notwithstanding the terms of any life insurance policy, the fact that life-sustaining treatment is withheld or withdrawn from an insured qualified patient under this chapter does not legally impair or invalidate that person's life insurance policy and may not be a factor for the purpose of determining, under the life insurance policy, whether benefits are payable or the cause of death.
(c) The fact that a person has executed or issued or failed to execute or issue an advance directive may not be considered in any way in establishing insurance premiums.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 1.02, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.166.htm
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