Tex. Health & Safety Code § 779.001 · Chapter 779. AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS
DEFINITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter, "automated external defibrillator" means a heart monitor and defibrillator that:
(1) has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration of its premarket notification filed under 21 U.S.C. Section 360(k), as amended;
(2) is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia and is capable of determining, without interpretation of cardiac rhythm by an operator, whether defibrillation should be performed; and
(3) on determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to an individual's heart.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 679, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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.779.htm
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Cited by 7 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 779.001. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Education Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 22.902INSTRUCTION RELATED TO CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AND USE OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR.Printed as Section 779.001, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 38.017AVAILABILITY OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR.Printed as Section 779.001, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 38.018CARDIAC EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN.Printed as Section 779.001, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 44.047PURCHASE OR LEASE OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR.Printed as Section 779.001, Health and Safety Code
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