Tex. Health & Safety Code § 313.006 · Chapter 313. CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT ACT
LIABILITY FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT COSTS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Liability for the cost of medical treatment provided as a result of consent to medical treatment by a surrogate decision-maker is the same as the liability for that cost if the medical treatment were provided as a result of the patient's own consent to the treatment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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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