CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1196Introduced by Senator BlakespearFebruary 14, 2024 An act relating to end of life. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1196, as introduced, Blakespear. End of Life Option Act.Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes participation in activities authorized pursuant to the act voluntary, and makes individual health care providers immune from liability for refusing to engage in activities authorized pursuant to its provisions, including providing information about the act or referring an individual to a provider who prescribes aid-in-dying medication.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the provisions of the act.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the End of Life Option Act.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1196Introduced by Senator BlakespearFebruary 14, 2024 An act relating to end of life. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1196, as introduced, Blakespear. End of Life Option Act.Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes participation in activities authorized pursuant to the act voluntary, and makes individual health care providers immune from liability for refusing to engage in activities authorized pursuant to its provisions, including providing information about the act or referring an individual to a provider who prescribes aid-in-dying medication.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the provisions of the act.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1196
Introduced by Senator BlakespearFebruary 14, 2024
Introduced by Senator Blakespear
February 14, 2024
An act relating to end of life.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1196, as introduced, Blakespear. End of Life Option Act.
Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes participation in activities authorized pursuant to the act voluntary, and makes individual health care providers immune from liability for refusing to engage in activities authorized pursuant to its provisions, including providing information about the act or referring an individual to a provider who prescribes aid-in-dying medication.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the provisions of the act.
Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes participation in activities authorized pursuant to the act voluntary, and makes individual health care providers immune from liability for refusing to engage in activities authorized pursuant to its provisions, including providing information about the act or referring an individual to a provider who prescribes aid-in-dying medication.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the provisions of the act.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the End of Life Option Act.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the End of Life Option Act.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the End of Life Option Act.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the End of Life Option Act.
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