Amend plank 146 as follows:

We call for the Texas Legislature to secure due process and the right for vulnerable Texas patients by reforming Chapter 671 of the Health and Safety Code (Brain Death) and continuing to reform Chapter 166 of the Health and Safety Code (Texas Advance Directives Act) by:

a. Repealing the unethical, unconstitutional, unprecedented, and anti-life 25-Day Rule in Section 166.046, Health and Safety Code, and replacing it with a truly life-affirming law that requires physicians to adhere to a patient's or surrogate's medical decision about life-sustaining treatment, and that provides for physicians who disagree with the patient's decision to transfer the patient to another physician or facility that will honor the decision to continue life-sustaining treatment.

b. Improving language that protects Texas patients with disabilities to clarify and strengthen that disability should not be a considered factor disabilities of any kind should not be the excuse to remove a patient's life-sustaining treatment.

c. Guaranteeing judicial review, ensuring the ability to appeal a hospital committee's decision and provide impartial legal recourse over life-and-death medical decisions.

d. Protecting patients' rights to opt out of the dangerous apnea test to declare brain death, receive an independent second opinion and to have their beliefs about brain death to be respected.