Linda Lopez voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Enacts End of Life Options Act
Vote to pass a bill that enacts the End of Life Options Act, which authorizes health-care providers to prescribe medication to a terminally ill patient to bring about the patient's death.
Establishes the End of Life Options Act, which authorizes an attending health care provider to give a terminally ill patient medical aid in dying as long as the authorized provider determines that the patient meets the following criteria (Sec. 3):
Has capacity to make such a decision;
Has a terminal illness;
Has made the request for medical aid in dying voluntarily; and
Has the ability to self-administer the medical-aid-in-dying medication.
Requires that the reason for death be listed on the death certificate as the patient’s terminal illness and not the aid-in-dying medication they consumed (Sec. 4).
Title: Enacts End of Life Options Act