Bill Text: CA SB1196 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: End of Life Option Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-18 - April 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1196 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1196-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1196

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Introduced by Senator Blakespear

February 14, 2024

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An act relating to end of life.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1196, as introduced, Blakespear. End of Life Option Act.

Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes participation in activities authorized pursuant to the act voluntary, and makes individual health care providers immune from liability for refusing to engage in activities authorized pursuant to its provisions, including providing information about the act or referring an individual to a provider who prescribes aid-in-dying medication.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the provisions of the act.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the End of Life Option Act.