1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Patient Rights Act . 2. Restriction on Federal funding for health care entities that do not respect all human life and patient rights (a) In general Subject to section 4, no funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose of paying (directly or indirectly, in whole or in part) for the provision of health care services shall be paid to any entity, unless the entity certifies to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this Act as the Secretary ) that the entity respects all human life and patient rights by ensuring that any health care practitioner employed by, or utilizing the facilities or resources of, such entity— (1) exercises the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of any patient as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to a patient in a different state of functionality, development, or degree of dependence, including a patient who is— (A) unborn; (B) newly born; (C) born prematurely; (D) pregnant; (E) elderly; (F) mentally or physically disabled; (G) terminally ill; (H) in a persistent vegetative state; (I) unresponsive or comatose; or (J) otherwise incapable of self-advocacy; (2) does not intentionally end the life of, or otherwise harm, any patient, including any patient described in paragraph (1), by any means or for any reason, including by the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device