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