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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 313.001 Short Title
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Sec. 313.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be cited as the Consent to Medical Treatment Act. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 313.002 Definitions
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Sec. 313.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older or a person under 18 years of age who has had the disabilities of minority removed. (2) "Attending physician" means the physician with primary responsibility for a patient's treatment …
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 313.003 Exceptions and Application
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Sec. 313.003. EXCEPTIONS AND APPLICATION. (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 o…
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 313.004 Consent For Medical Treatment
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Sec. 313.004. CONSENT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT. (a) If an adult patient of a home and community support services agency or in a hospital or nursing home, or an adult inmate of a county or municipal jail, is comatose, incapacitated, or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of co…