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409N0183
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ENGROSSED NO. SB 75 - 01/22/2007
Introduced by: Senators Hunhoff, Heidepriem, Knudson, Koetzle, and Turbak and Representatives Feinstein, Cutler, Gillespie, and Moore
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise certain provisions regarding living wills.
Section 1. That § 34-12D-1 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-1. Terms used in this chapter mean:
(3) " Health-care Health care provider," any person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by law to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession, including any person employed by or acting for any such authorized person licensed health care facility or any person, corporation, or organization licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to administer health care ;
(4) "Life-sustaining treatment," any medical procedure or intervention that, when administered to a qualified patient, will serve only to postpone the moment of death
or to maintain the patient in a condition of permanent unconsciousness. The term does not include the provision of appropriate care to maintain comfort, hygiene and human dignity, the oral administration of food and water, or the administration of any medication or other medical procedure deemed necessary to alleviate pain;
(7) "Qualified patient," an adult individual who has executed a declaration and who has been determined by the attending physician and one other physician to be in a terminal condition;
(8) "Terminal condition," an incurable and irreversible condition such that, in accordance with accepted medical standards, will cause death within a relatively short time death is imminent if life-sustaining treatment is not administered, or a coma or other condition of permanent unconsciousness that, in accordance with accepted medical standards, will last indefinitely without significant improvement and in which the individual is unable to communicate verbally or nonverbally, demonstrates no purposeful movement or motor ability, and is unable to interact purposefully with environmental stimulation.
Section 2. That § 34-12D-3 be amended to read as follows:
This is an important legal document. This document A living will directs the medical treatment you are to receive in the event you are in a terminal condition and are unable to
participate in your own medical decisions and you are in a terminal condition . This document living will may state what kind of treatment you want or do not want to receive.
This document can control whether you live or die. Prepare this document living will carefully. If you use this form, read it completely. You may want to seek professional help to make sure the form does what you intend and is completed without mistakes.
This document will remain living will remains valid and in effect until and unless you revoke it. Review this document living will periodically to make sure it continues to reflect your wishes. You may amend or revoke this document living will at any time by notifying your physician and other health-care health care providers. You should give copies of this document living will to your physician and your family , your physician, and your health care facility . This form is entirely optional. If you choose to use this form, please note that the form provides signature lines for you, the two witnesses whom you have selected , and a notary public.
TO MY FAMILY, PHYSICIANS HEALTH CARE PROVIDER , AND ALL THOSE CONCERNED WITH MY CARE:
I, ____ willfully and voluntarily make this declaration as a directive to be followed if I am in a terminal condition and become unable to participate in decisions regarding my medical care direct you to follow my wishes for care if I am in a terminal condition, my death is imminent, and I am unable to communicate my decisions about my medical care .
(Initial only one of the following optional directives if you agree options . If you do not agree with any either of the following directives options , space is provided below for you to write your own directives instructions. ) .
_ MAXIMUM TREATMENT. Preserve my life as long as possible, but do not provide treatment that is not in accordance with accepted medical standards as then in effect.
(Artificial nutrition and hydration is food and water provided by means of a nasogastric tube or tubes inserted into the stomach, intestines, or veins. If you do not wish to receive this form of treatment, you must initial the statement below which reads: "I intend to include this treatment, among the 'life-sustaining treatment' that may be withheld or withdrawn.")
With respect to artificial nutrition and hydration, I wish to make clear that direct the following:
_ I intend to include this treatment among the "life-sustaining treatment" that may be withheld or withdrawn.
_ I do not intend to include this treatment among the "life-sustaining treatment" that may be withheld or withdrawn.
Section 3. That § 34-12D-5 be repealed.
34-12D-5. A declaration becomes operative when the declarant is determined by the attending physician and one other physician to be in a terminal condition and no longer able to make decisions regarding administration of life-sustaining treatment. If the declaration becomes operative, the attending physician and other health-care providers shall act in accordance with the declaration or comply with the transfer requirements of § 34-12D-11.
Section 4. That § 34-12D-8 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-8. A declarant may revoke a declaration at any time and in any manner without regard to the declarant's mental or physical condition. A revocation is effective upon
communication to the attending physician or other health-care health care provider. The attending physician or health-care health care provider shall make the revocation a part of the declarant's medical record.
Section 5. That § 34-12D-9 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-9. This chapter does not affect the responsibility of the attending physician or other health-care any health care provider to provide treatment , including orally or artificially administered nutrition and hydration, when necessary to alleviate pain or to provide for the patient's comfort, hygiene, or human dignity.
Section 6. That § 34-12D-11 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-11. A physician or other health-care health care provider need not participate in the withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining treatment. However, a physician or other health-care health care provider electing for any reason not to participate in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment shall make a reasonable effort to locate and to transfer the declarant to a physician or health-care health care provider willing to honor the declaration.
Section 7. That § 34-12D-12 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-12. If an individual's declaration contains a directive to provide treatment or artificial nutrition and hydration under any circumstances, any physician or health-care health care provider who has responsibility for the treatment and care of the individual must provide the directed treatment or artificial nutrition and hydration in those circumstances so long as it is technically feasible. A physician or health-care health care provider who objects to providing such treatment may instead transfer the individual to a physician or health-care health care provider willing to honor the declaration, but must continue to provide the treatment or care until the transfer is effectuated.
Section 8. That § 34-12D-13 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-13. A physician or other health-care health care provider is not subject to civil or criminal liability or to discipline for unprofessional conduct professional disciplinary action for giving effect to a declaration, absent actual knowledge of its revocation, for determining that a terminal condition does or does not exist or for declining to give effect to a declaration under § 34-12D-11.
Section 9. That § 34-12D-14 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-14. Death resulting from the withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with this chapter does not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide on the part of the declarant or a homicide on the part of the attending physician or other health-care health care providers.
Section 10. That § 34-12D-19 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-19. This chapter does not require a physician or other health-care health care provider to take action contrary to reasonable accepted medical standards.
Section 11. That § 34-12D-21 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-21. In the absence of actual knowledge to the contrary, a physician or other health-care health care provider may assume that a declaration complies with this chapter and is valid.
Section 12. That § 34-12D-29 be amended to read as follows:
34-12D-29. For the purposes of §§ 34-12D-23 to 34-12D-28, inclusive, the term, licensed health care professional, means any physician, surgeon, podiatrist, osteopath, physician assistant, nurse, certified nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, certified nurse specialist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, dentist, or pharmacist licensed pursuant to Title 36.