Texas HB2072 amends laws regarding advance directives and health care decisions, creating a criminal offense for withdrawing life-sustaining.

Texas HB2072 amends the Civil Practice and Remedies Code and Health and Safety Code to address health care and treatment decisions, specifically those involving the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The bill exempts health care liability claims related to such actions from statutory limitations. It also creates a criminal offense for causing a patient's death by withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining treatment contrary to the patient's directive or authorized health care decisions, classifying it as a first-degree felony.

Texas HB2072 amends laws regarding advance directives and health care decisions, creating a criminal offense for withdrawing life-sustaining.

Texas HB2072 amends the Civil Practice and Remedies Code and Health and Safety Code to address health care and treatment decisions, specifically those involving the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The bill exempts health care liability claims related to such actions from statutory limitations. It also creates a criminal offense for causing a patient's death by withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining treatment contrary to the patient's directive or authorized health care decisions, classifying it as a first-degree felony.