Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.102 · Subchapter C. OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDERS
PHYSICIAN'S DNR ORDER MAY BE HONORED BY HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL OTHER THAN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a licensed nurse or person providing health care services in an out-of-hospital setting may honor a physician's do-not-resuscitate order.
(b) When responding to a call for assistance, emergency medical services personnel:
(1) shall honor only a properly executed or issued out-of-hospital DNR order or prescribed DNR identification device in accordance with this subchapter; and
(2) have no duty to review, examine, interpret, or honor a person's other written directive, including a written directive in the form prescribed by Section 166.033.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1228, Sec. 7, eff. June 20, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 710 (H.B. 577), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011.
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