General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5989
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 2384
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. URBAN, 43rd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 5989
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 2384
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. URBAN, 43rd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING PHYSICIAN'S ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That section 19a-595 of the general statutes be amended to allow persons determined to have less than one year to live to establish, with their physician, physician's orders for life sustaining treatment to convey detailed directions concerning their wishes for end-of-life medical care.
Statement of Purpose:
To allow patients determined to have less than one year to live to establish more complete and binding end-of-life medical care directions, which are converted to a set of portable medical orders.