Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.009 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CERTAIN LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT NOT REQUIRED.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter may not be construed to require the provision of life-sustaining treatment that cannot be provided to a patient without denying the same treatment to another patient.
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
- Edition
- 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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