Second Bill to Amend Texas Advance Directives Act

I recently wrote that, in late January, a bill was introduced in the Texas Senate that would improve the fairness and transparency of those provisions in the Texas Advance Directives Act that permit clinicians to unilaterally withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (without patient or surrogate consent). 

Yesterday, a virtually identical bill, H.B. 1444, was introduced in the Texas House.  Expect more bills to be introduced over the coming weeks.