Tex. Health & Safety Code § 313.003 · Chapter 313. CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT ACT
EXCEPTIONS AND APPLICATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from qualified terminal or irreversible patients under Subchapter B, Chapter 166;
(2) a health care decision made under a medical power of attorney under Subchapter D, Chapter 166, or under Subtitle P, Title 2, Estates Code;
(3) consent to medical treatment of minors under Chapter 32, Family Code;
(4) consent for emergency care under Chapter 773;
(5) hospital patient transfers under Chapter 241; or
(6) a patient's legal guardian who has the authority to make a decision regarding the patient's medical treatment.
(b) This chapter does not authorize a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 324 (S.B. 1488), Sec. 22.045, eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.313.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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Estates Code
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 166, subch. BDIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIANSPrinted as Subchapter B, Chapter 166
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 166, subch. DMEDICAL POWER OF ATTORNEYPrinted as Subchapter D, Chapter 166
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 241HOSPITALSPrinted as Chapter 241
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 773EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICESPrinted as Chapter 773
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