Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.201 · Subchapter E. HEALTH CARE FACILITY DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDERS
DEFINITION.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter, "DNR order" means an order instructing a health care professional not to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a patient whose circulatory or respiratory function ceases.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 11 (S.B. 11), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2018.
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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