SB 228: Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment
GENERAL BILL by Brandes
Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment; Establishing the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program within the Department of Health; providing limited immunity for legal representatives and specified health care providers acting in good faith in reliance on POLST forms; authorizing emergency medical transportation providers to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other medical interventions if presented with POLST forms that contain an order not to resuscitate, etc.
Senate Committee References:
- Judiciary (JU)
- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
- Appropriations (AP)
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 1/3/2017 Senate • Filed
1/12/2017 Senate • Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 52
3/7/2017 Senate • Introduced -SJ 52
5/5/2017 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Judiciary
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SB 228, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/3/2017 at 9:45 AM
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF Analyses: None Related Bills (1)
Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills S 722 Public Records/Clearinghouse for Compassionate and Palliative Care Plans Brandes Linked Last Action: 5/5/2017 S Died in Judiciary 
Citations - Statutes (12)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 400.142 Emergency medication kits; orders not to resuscitate. Page 14 (pdf) 400.487 Home health service agreements; physician’s, physician assistant’s, and advanced registered nurse practitioner’s treatment orders; patient assessment; establishment and review of plan of care; provision of services; orders not to resuscitate. Page 15 (pdf) 400.605 Administration; forms; fees; rules; inspections; fines. Page 17 (pdf) 400.6095 Patient admission; assessment; plan of care; discharge; death. Page 17 (pdf) 401.35 Rules. Page 18 (pdf) 401.45 Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability. Page 19 (pdf) 401.451 Page 4 (pdf) 408.064 Page 12 (pdf) 429.255 Use of personnel; emergency care. Page 19 (pdf) 429.73 Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes. Page 20 (pdf) 456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement. Page 21 (pdf) 765.205 Responsibility of the surrogate. Page 22 (pdf)