By: Frank H.B. No. 2943
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to revocation of do-not-resuscitate orders for patients
  admitted to a health care facility or hospital.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 166.205(a), (b), and (c), Health and
  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A physician providing direct care to a patient for whom
  a DNR order is issued shall revoke the patient's DNR order if:
               (1)  the advance directive on which the DNR order is
  based is revoked in accordance with this chapter; or
               (2)  the patient or the individual whose direction or
  treatment decision was the basis for issuing the DNR order[, as
  applicable, the patient's agent under a medical power of attorney
  or the patient's legal guardian if the patient is incompetent:
               [(1)  effectively revokes an advance directive, in
  accordance with Section 166.042, for which a DNR order is issued
  under Section 166.203(a); or
               [(2)]  expresses to any person providing direct care to
  the patient a revocation of consent to or intent to revoke a DNR
  order issued under Section 166.203(a).
         (b)  A person providing direct care to a patient under the
  supervision of a physician shall notify the physician of:
               (1)  the revocation of the advance directive described
  by Subsection (a)(1); or
               (2)  the request to revoke a DNR order under Subsection
  (a)(2) [(a)].
         (c)  The [A patient's attending] physician who issued [may at
  any time revoke] a DNR order issued under Section 166.203(a)(2) may
  at any time revoke the DNR order.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.