Key Votes
AB 2747 - Disclosing End-of-Life Care Options - Key Vote
California Key Votes
Ted Gaines voted Nay (Passage) on this legislation.
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Stages
- Sept. 30, 2008 Executive Signed
- Aug. 28, 2008 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- Aug. 20, 2008 Senate Bill Passed
- May 28, 2008 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 22, 2008 Introduced
Family
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - Sept. 30, 2008
Title: Disclosing End-of-Life Care Options
Signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (42-34) - Aug. 28, 2008
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (21-17) - Aug. 20, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Disclosing End-of-Life Care Options
Highlights:
- Requires health care providers to provide comprehensive information when requested, including but not limited to [sec. 2 (442.5) (a)]:
- - Hospice care;
- A Prognosis with and without the continuation of disease-targeted treatment;
- A patient's right to refuse or withdrawal from life-sustaining treatment options;
- A patient's right to continue disease-targeted treatment, with or without simultaneous palliative care;
- A patient's right to comprehensive pain and symptom treatment at the end of life; and
- A patient's right to provide a health care provider with individual health care instructions, such as an advance health care directive and the appointment of a decision-maker.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (42-34) - May 28, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Disclosing End-of-Life Care Options
Highlights:
-Mandates that a health care provider who has received a request for information regarding end-of-life care options must provide information about the following options: hospice care, curative treatment, refusal of life-sustaining treatment, palliative care, pain and symptom management including pain medication, treatment of nausea, palliative chemotherapy, relief of shortness of breath and fatigue, palliative sedation, and voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) (Sec. 2).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 22, 2008
Title: Disclosing End-of-Life Care Options
Sponsors
- Patty Berg (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lloyd E. Levine (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Karen Bass (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Julia Brownley (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jared William Huffman (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dave Jones (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Eugene R. 'Gene' Mullin (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary Salas (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alberto Torrico (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lois Wolk (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
