SB 165

Bill Subjects

Guardianships Legislature Medical Facilities And Related Entities Suicide Health And Human Services, Department Of Osteopathic Physicians Coroners Psychiatrists (See Also Osteopathic Physicians; Physicians) Right To Die Fraud Pharmacists And Pharmacy Internet Confidential And Privileged Information Death Certificates Contracts And Agreements Crimes And Punishments (See Also Specific Crimes) Legislative Counsel Bureau Public Records Psychologists Prescriptions Patients Insurance Companies Death With Dignity Homicide Health, Local Boards And Officers Wills Physicians Actions, Civil Insurance Medical Records Euthanasia Controlled Substances Hospitals (See Also Medical Facilities And Related Entities) Death Hospice Care (See Also Medical Facilities And Related Entities)

Abstract

AN ACT relating to public health; revising provisions concerning medical certificates of death relating to a person who self-administers a controlled substance designed to end his or her life; authorizing a physician to prescribe a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of a patient under certain circumstances; prohibiting persons other than a patient from administering a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of the patient; imposing requirements on certain providers of health care relating to the records of a patient who requests a controlled substance that is designed to end his or her life; providing immunity to certain providers of health care who take certain actions relating to prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of a patient; prohibiting certain fraudulent or coercive acts for the purpose of causing a person to self-administer a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of the person; authorizing the owner or operator of a health care facility to prohibit certain persons from providing certain services relating to a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of a patient; prohibiting a person from conditioning provisions of a will, contract, agreement or policy of life insurance on the request for or acquisition or administration of a controlled substance designed to end the life of the person; prohibiting a person from refusing to sell or provide life insurance or denying benefits to or imposing additional charges against a policyholder or beneficiary because the insured requested or revoked a request for a controlled substance designed to end the life of the person; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.