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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1829 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5712 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1829 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. ANDERSON, 62nd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING THE CAUSE OF DEATH FOR PERSONS WHO | |
| 19 | 19 | SELF-ADMINISTER MEDICATION PRESCRIBED TO BRING ABOUT | |
| 20 | 20 | DEATH. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That the general statutes be amended to require, upon the 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | legalization of any provision allowing the prescribing of medication to 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | a terminally ill patient that the patient may self-administer to bring 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | about death, any person completing the cause of death field on a death 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | certificate, who knows that a lethal drug, overdose or other means of 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | assisting suicide caused or contributed to the death, to (1) list such 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | means among the chain of events under cause of death, and (2) if such 7 | |
| 31 | 31 | means is in the chain of events, indicate "suicide" as the manner of death. 8 | |
| 32 | 32 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 33 | 33 | To provide notice to the next of kin that a member of the family passed | |
| 34 | 34 | away due to assisted suicide. |