Bill Title: Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code, Nursing Home Care Act, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, Hospital Licensing Act, and Health Care Surrogate Act to refer to life sustaining treatment (instead of do not resuscitate) advance directive orders. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall publish (instead of adopt, by rule, and publish) Spanish language versions of specified health care directive forms. Amends the Health Care Surrogate Act to require that a life sustaining treatment advance directive be witnessed by one individual (instead of 2 individuals) 18 years of age or older.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-25 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0765 [SB2256 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Arthur Wilhelmi [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Pamela Althoff [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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