80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 14, Chapter 266 Page: 1 of 37
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Chapter 266
H.B. No. 14
1 AN ACT
2 relating to reorganizing certain state Institutions that provide
3 financing for cancer research, including creating the Cancer
4 Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, and information about
5 certain cancer treatments; granting authority to issue bonds.
6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
7 SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 86, Health and Safety
8 Code, is amended to read as follows:
9 CHAPTER 86. BREAST CANCER AND LUNG CANCER
10 SECTION 2. Chapter 86, Health and Safety Code, is amended by
11 adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
12 SUBCHAPTER C. INFORMATION ON ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR LUNG CANCER
13 Sec. 86.101. PURPOSE. It is the intent of the legislature
14 that lung cancer patients have access to a standardized written
15 summary , as provided under this subchapter, of medically
16 efficacious and viable alternative treatments for lung cancer,
17 which may include surgical, radiological, or chemotherapeutic
18 treatment or combinations of those treatments.
19 Sec. 86.102. STANDARDIZED WRITTEN SUMMARY. (a) The
20 department shall publish a standardized written summary, in
21 language a patient can understand, of the advantages,
22 disadvantages, r isks , and descriptions of all medically
23 efficacious and viable alternatives for the treatment of lung
24 cancer.
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 14, Chapter 266, legislative document, 2007-05/2007-06; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154751/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.