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HB 343: End-of-life Care

GENERAL BILL

End-of-life Care; authorizes personnel of hospital emergency services, long-term care & assisted living facilities, home health agencies, hospices, & adult family-care homes to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation pursuant to order not to resuscitate; revises authority of emergency medical technicians & paramedics to withhold or withdraw resuscitation or life-prolonging techniques, etc. Amends Chs. 395, 400, 401, 732, 765.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/15/1999	House	• Prefiled
  1/21/1999	House	• Referred to Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC); Health Care Services (HFC); Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC)
  3/2/1999	House	• Introduced, referred to Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC); Health Care Services (HFC); Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC) -HJ 00041
  3/10/1999	House	• Withdrawn from Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC); Health Care Services (HFC); Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC); Withdrawn from further cons.,Iden/Sim/Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331) -HJ 00286

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• HB 343, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 8/28/2000 at 9:26 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 2131	End-of-life Care	Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care	Similar	Last Action: 4/30/1999 H Died on Calendar, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331) Location:
  S 2228 (e1)		Klein	Similar	Last Action: 6/11/1999 Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 99-331 Location:

  Citations - Statutes (34)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  395.1027	Regional poison control centers.
  395.1041	Access to emergency services and care.
  400.142	Emergency medication kits.
  400.4255	Use of licensed personnel.
  400.487	Patient assessment; establishment and review of plan of care; provision of services.
  400.6095	Patient admission; assessment; plan of care; discharge; death.
  400.621	Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes.
  401.23	Definitions.
  401.245	Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council.
  401.45	Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability.
  732.912	Persons who may make an anatomical gift.
  732.914	Manner of executing anatomical gifts.
  732.916	Amendment or revocation of the gift.
  732.922	Duty of certain hospital administrators; liability of hospital administrators, organ procurement organizations, eye banks, and tissue banks.
  765.101	Definitions.
  765.102	Legislative findings and intent.
  765.103	Existing advance directives.
  765.104	Revocation.
  765.110	Health care facilities and providers; discipline.
  765.1105
  765.1115
  765.113	Restrictions on providing consent.
  765.204	Capacity of principal; procedure.
  765.205	Responsibility of the surrogate.
  765.301	Short title.
  765.302	Procedure for making a living will; notice to physician.
  765.303	Suggested form of a living will.
  765.304	Procedure for living will.
  765.305	Procedure in absence of a living will.
  765.306	Determination of patient condition.
  765.308	Transfer of a patient.
  765.310	Falsification, forgery, or willful concealment, cancellation, or destruction of declaration or revocation; penalties.
  765.401	The proxy.
  765.404

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