Maryland House Bill 1021 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-2)
Status: Introduced on February 13 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-03-06 - Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizing a qualified patient to request aid in dying by making specified requests; prohibiting an individual from requesting aid in dying on behalf of a patient; requiring a written request for aid in dying to meet specified requirements; establishing specified requirements for witnesses to a written request for aid in dying; requiring a written request for aid in dying to be in a specified form; requiring an attending physician who receives a written request for aid in dying to make a specified determination; etc.

Richard E. Israel and Roger "Pip" Moyer Death with Dignity Act

Del. Shane Pendergrass [D]	Del. Curtis Anderson [D]	Del. Angela Angel [D]	Del. Ben Barnes [D]
Del. Kumar Barve [D]	Del. Alfred Carr [D]	Del. Andrew Cassilly [R]	Del. Bonnie Cullison [D]
Del. Kathleen Dumais [D]	Del. Eric Ebersole [D]	Del. David Fraser-hidalgo [D]	Del. William Frick [D]
Del. Barbara Frush [D]	Del. James Gilchrist [D]	Del. Peter Hammen [D]	Sen. Shelly Hettleman [D]
Del. Sally Jameson [D]	Del. Anne Kaiser [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]	Del. Marc Korman [D]
Sen. Benjamin Kramer [D]	Sen. Clarence Lam [D]	Del. Maggie McIntosh [D]	Del. Aruna Miller [D]
Del. David Moon [D]	Del. Marice Morales [D]	Sen. Nathaniel Oaks [D]	Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]
Del. Andrew Platt [D]	Del. Kirill Reznik [D]	Del. Shane Robinson [D]	Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]
Sen. William Smith [D]	Del. Michael Vaughn [D]	Sen. Alonzo Washington [D]	Sen. Chris West [R]
Del. C.T. Wilson [D]	Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-06	House	Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
2015-02-19	House	Hearing cancelled
2015-03-06	House	Hearing 3/06 at 1:30 p.m. (Judiciary)
2015-02-13	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations and Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1021?ys=2015rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/hb/hb1021f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/fnotes/bil_0001/hb1021.pdf