Tex. Health and Safety Code § 779.001
DEFINITION
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- Tex. Health and Safety Code § 779.001, DEFINITION, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/676176
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In this chapter, "automated external defibrillator" means a heart monitor and defibrillator that:
(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;
(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
(3) on determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to an individual's heart.