Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.007 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EXECUTION OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVE MAY NOT BE REQUIRED.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A physician, health facility, health care provider, insurer, or health care service plan may not require a person to execute or issue an advance directive as a condition for obtaining insurance for health care services or receiving health care services.
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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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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