{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-779.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 779.001","heading":"DEFINITION.","body":"In this chapter, \"automated external defibrillator\" means a heart monitor and defibrillator that:\n(1) has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration of its premarket notification filed under 21 U.S.C. Section 360(k), as amended;\n(2) is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia and is capable of determining, without interpretation of cardiac rhythm by an operator, whether defibrillation should be performed; and\n(3) on determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to an individual's heart.\nAdded by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 679, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 9. SAFETY","SUBTITLE B. EMERGENCIES","CHAPTER 779. AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.779.htm#779.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"86783186323f0a6b7892566c069c58003d5ff2fb9349ae9c096caf565991854d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-778a.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-779.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}