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| Measure Title: |
RELATING TO DEATH WITH DIGNITY.
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| Report Title: |
Death with Dignity
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| Description: |
Allows a terminally ill, competent adult of at least fifty years of age to get a lethal dose of medication to end life. Prohibits physicians and others from administering mercy killings, lethal injections, and active euthanasia. Requires a qualified patient's administration of medication to end life to not be construed as suicide for certain purposes. Requires informed consent. Allows alternate doctor to replace attending doctor if latter declines to prescribe. Requires monitor at time of taking dose.
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| Companion: |
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| Package: |
None
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| Current Referral: |
CPH, JDL
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| Introducer(s): |
INOUYE, DELA CRUZ, RUDERMAN, Galuteria, Wakai
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| Act: |
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| Sort by Date | | Status Text |
| 1/27/2016 | S | Referred to CPH, JDL. |
| 1/25/2016 | S | Passed First Reading. |
| 1/22/2016 | S | Introduced. |
S = Senate |
H = House |
D = Data Systems |
$ = Appropriation measure |
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment
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