NV SB105 | 2021 | 81st Legislature

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on April 10 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-10 - (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

AN ACT relating to public health; establishing provisions concerning medical certificates of death relating to a patient who self-administers a controlled substance designed to end his or her life; authorizing a physician to prescribe a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of a patient under certain circumstances; imposing requirements on certain providers of health care relating to the records of a patient who requests a controlled substance that is designed to end his or her life; prohibiting persons other than a patient from administering a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of the patient; providing immunity to certain providers of health care who take certain actions relating to prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of a patient; prohibiting certain fraudulent or coercive acts for the purpose of causing a person to self-administer a controlled substance that is designed to end of the life of the person; authorizing the owner or operator of a health care facility to prohibit certain persons from providing certain services relating to a controlled substance that is designed to end the life of a patient; prohibiting a person from conditioning provisions of a will, contract, agreement or policy of life insurance on the request for or acquisition or administration of a controlled substance designed to end the life of the person; prohibiting an insurer from refusing to sell or provide life insurance or denying benefits to or imposing additional charges against a policyholder or beneficiary because the insured requested or revoked a request for a controlled substance designed to end the life of the insured; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Title

Establishes provisions governing prescribing, dispensing and administering controlled substances designed to end the life of a patient. (BDR 40-546)

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History

DateChamberAction
2021-04-10Senate(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
2021-02-10SenateFrom printer. To committee.
2021-02-09SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

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