Texas Patriots,
Legislation to repeal the Ten-Day Rule, a
platform plank of the RPT, has been placed on the Senate Intent
Calendar and is eligible to be heard on the Senate floor.

The Republican Party of Texas supports Senate
Bill 917 by Senator Bryan Hughes as legislation that seeks to
carry out the intention of the Republican Platform:

Plank 277. Repeal and Replace Ten-Day Rule:
We support legislation repealing the unethical Ten-Day Rule in
Section 166.046, Health and Safety Code, which allows physicians
to withdraw basic life-sustaining treatment (like a ventilator)
after an impending countdown. We also support legislation
replacing the Ten-Day Rule with a truly life-affirming law that
requires a patient's or surrogate's medical decision about basic
life-sustaining treatment to be honored until the patient is
transferred to another physician or facility that will honor the
decision to continue life-sustaining treatment.

Last year at the Republican Party of Texas
State Convention the Legislative Priorities Committee discussed
the numerous resolutions they received from around the state
asking to make repealing the 10-Day Rule a priority. After
hearing many witnesses and committee members support the effort,
the Legislative Priorities Committee placed the issue in their
top 15.

Currently, the Texas Advance Directives Act
(TADA) allows a doctor and hospital to withdraw life-sustaining
medical treatment, like a ventilator or dialysis, from a patient
against the
instructions of the patient's family, the
patient's expressed medical decisions, and even the patient's
written advance directive.

Once the doctor's decision is affirmed by the
hospital's own ethics committee, the patient is given only ten
days to transfer to another facility or physician willing to
honor their instructions before treatment may be legally
withdrawn. This nearly always means the patient's death.

SB 917 as filed would have repealed the
Ten-Day Rule altogether by removing the countdown and requiring
that the patient continue to receive treatment until a transfer
can be found. A substituted version increasing the countdown from
10 to 90 days passed out of the Senate Health and Human Services
Committee last week.

Please call your Senator and ask him/her to
vote in favor of SB 917 by Senator Hughes.

This legislation is critical to the RPT
platform goal of valuing the right to life and due process of
law. Until the Ten-Day Rule is repealed and replaced, every Texan
is at risk.
For God and Texas,



-- The Republican Party of Texas










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