Key Votes
S 1348 - Requires doctors to provide end-of-life care - Key Vote
Idaho Key Votes
Stages
- April 5, 2012 Executive Signed
- March 28, 2012 House Bill Passed
- March 19, 2012 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 28, 2012 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - April 5, 2012
Title: Requires doctors to provide end-of-life care
Signed by Governor Butch Otter
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (58-11) - March 28, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Requires doctors to provide end-of-life care
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits doctors from denying a patient end-of-life care without the patient's consent.
Highlights:
- Prohibits doctors and nurses from denying end-of-life care which includes, but is not limited to, the following (Sec. 3):
- Assisted feeding;
- Artificial nutrition; and
- Artificial hydration.
- Specifies that the denial of end-of-life care is valid if consent is given by (Sec. 3):
- A competent, mentally sound patient;
- A patient’s health care directive; or
- A patient’s surrogate decision maker.
- Authorizes doctors and nurses to deny “futile care” treatment for a terminally ill patient whose death is imminent within hours or at most a few days and the medical treatment will not improve the patient's condition or speed up the patient's death (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that “futile care” does not include “comfort care” (Sec. 3).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (24-10) - March 19, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Requires doctors to provide end-of-life care
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits doctors from denying a patient end-of-life care without the patient's consent.
Highlights:
- Prohibits doctors and nurses from denying end-of-life care which includes, but is not limited to, the following (Sec. 3):
- Assisted feeding;
- Artificial nutrition; and
- Artificial hydration.
- Specifies that the denial of end-of-life care is valid if consent is given by (Sec. 3):
- A competent, mentally sound patient;
- A patient’s health care directive; or
- A patient’s surrogate decision maker.
- Authorizes doctors and nurses to deny “futile care” treatment for a terminally ill patient whose death is imminent within hours or at most a few days and the medical treatment will not improve the patient's condition or speed up the patient's death (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that “futile care” does not include “comfort care” (Sec. 3).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Feb. 28, 2012
Title: Requires doctors to provide end-of-life care
Committee Sponsors
- State Affairs (Sponsor)
Sponsors
- Sheryl L. Nuxoll (ID - R)
- Erik Simpson (ID - R) (Out Of Office)