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2000 SESSION
SB 677 Health care decisions.
Introduced by: J. Randy Forbes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Health care decisions. Requires, in those instances in which a physician determines the terms of an advance directive of a qualified patient or the treatment decision of a person designated to make the decision on the treatment to be medically or ethically inappropriate, that the physician make reasonable effort to inform the patient or the patient's designated decision-maker of such determination and the reasons for the determination. If the conflict remains unresolved, the physician must make a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to another physician who is willing to comply with the terms of the advance directive. The physician must provide the patient or his authorized decision-maker a reasonable time of not less than 14 days to effect such transfer and must continue to provide, during this period, any life-sustaining care to the patient which is reasonably available to him, as requested by the patient or his designated decision-maker; however, the physician is not required to provide treatment that the physician is physically or legally unable to provide or treatment that he is physically or legally unable to provide without denying the same treatment to another patient. "Life-sustaining care" is defined as "any ongoing medical treatment that utilizes mechanical or other artificial means to sustain, restore or supplant a spontaneous vital function, including hydration, nutrition, maintenance medication, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation."
FULL TEXT
- 01/24/00 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 004796424 pdf
- 02/10/00 Senate: Committee substitute printed 006144424-S1 pdf
- 03/13/00 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB677ER) pdf
- 04/21/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/24/00 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 004796424
- 01/24/00 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/10/00 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/00 Senate: Committee substitute printed 006144424-S1
- 02/11/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Read second time
- 02/14/00 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/00 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 006144424-S1
- 02/14/00 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 006144424-S1
- 02/14/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/16/00 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/16/00 House: Read first time
- 02/16/00 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/22/00 House: Reported from H. W. I. w/amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/00 House: Read second time
- 02/24/00 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/25/00 House: Read third time
- 02/25/00 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/25/00 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/25/00 House: Passed House with amendments (Block Vote) (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/25/00 House: Passed House with amendments (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/00 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/29/00 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/00 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENT (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/13/00 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB677ER)
- 03/16/00 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/16/00 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/17/00 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/07/00 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (effective 7/1/00)
- 04/21/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)