Tex. Health & Safety Code § 313.007 · Chapter 313. CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT ACT
LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A surrogate decision-maker is not subject to criminal or civil liability for consenting to medical care under this chapter if the consent is made in good faith.
(b) An attending physician, home and community support services agency, hospital, or nursing home or a person acting as an agent for or under the control of the physician, home and community support services agency, hospital, or nursing home is not subject to criminal or civil liability and has not engaged in unprofessional conduct if the medical treatment consented to under this chapter:
(1) is done in good faith under the consent to medical treatment; and
(2) does not constitute a failure to exercise due care in the provision of the medical 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 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1271 (H.B. 3473), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2007.
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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