Bill Text: CA SB403 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: End of Life Option Act: sunset.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-10-03 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 315, Statutes of 2025. [SB403 Detail]

Download: California-2025-SB403-Chaptered.html

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Senate Bill No. 403

CHAPTER 315

An act to repeal Section 443.215 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

[ Approved by Governor  October 03, 2025. Filed with Secretary of State  October 03, 2025. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 403, Blakespear. End of Life Option Act: sunset.

Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, including, among other things, being a resident of the State of California, 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 specified violations of the act a crime, including knowingly coercing or exerting undue influence on an individual to request or ingest an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life.

This bill would repeal the January 1, 2031, expiration date of the act, thereby extending the operation of the act indefinitely. By extending the operation of crimes within the act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 443.215 of the Health and Safety Code is repealed.

SEC. 2.

 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.