Bill Text: TX HB577 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to emergency prehospital care provided by emergency services personnel.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB577-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 577 | ||
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| relating to emergency prehospital care provided by emergency | ||
| services personnel. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 166.102(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) When responding to a call for assistance, emergency | ||
| medical services personnel: | ||
| (1) shall honor only a properly executed or issued | ||
| out-of-hospital DNR order or prescribed DNR identification device | ||
| in accordance with this subchapter; and | ||
| (2) have no duty to review, examine, interpret, or | ||
| honor a person's other written directive, including a written | ||
| directive in the form prescribed by Section 166.033. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 773.016 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 773.016. DUTIES OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES | ||
| PERSONNEL; CERTAIN EMERGENCY PREHOSPITAL CARE SITUATIONS. (a) In | ||
| this section, "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 166.002. | ||
| (b) Emergency medical services personnel who are providing | ||
| emergency prehospital care to a person are subject to Chapter 166, | ||
| including Section 166.102. | ||
| (c) If a person's personal physician is present and assumes | ||
| responsibility for the care of the person under the applicable | ||
| requirements of Chapter 197, Title 22, Texas Administrative Code, | ||
| while the person is receiving emergency prehospital care, the | ||
| physician may order the termination of cardiopulmonary | ||
| resuscitation only if, based on the physician's professional | ||
| medical judgment, the physician determines that resuscitation | ||
| should be discontinued. | ||
| (d) If a person's personal physician is not present or does | ||
| not assume responsibility for the care of the person while the | ||
| person is receiving emergency prehospital care, the emergency | ||
| medical services system's medical director or online physician: | ||
| (1) shall be responsible for directing the emergency | ||
| medical services personnel who are providing emergency prehospital | ||
| care to the person; and | ||
| (2) may order the termination of cardiopulmonary | ||
| resuscitation only if, based on the medical director's or online | ||
| physician's professional medical judgment, the medical director or | ||
| online physician determines that resuscitation should be | ||
| discontinued. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 577 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 577 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
