HB 1339: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
GENERAL BILL by Pigman
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment; Establishes POLST within DOH; authorizes EMTs & certain health care professionals to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other medical interventions if presented with POLST forms that contain orders not to resuscitate; provides specified health care providers & legal representatives with limited immunity.
Effective Date: 7/1/2018
Last Action: 3/10/2018 House - Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
Last Action: 3/10/2018 House - Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 1/8/2018 House • Filed
1/9/2018 House • Introduced -HJ 115
1/12/2018 House • Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 340
3/10/2018 House • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
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HB 1339, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/8/2018 at 11:42 AM
Bill Text: PDF Analyses: None Related Bills (3)
Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills H 1341 Pub. Rec./Clearinghouse for Compassionate and Palliative Care Plans Pigman Linked Last Action: 3/10/2018 H Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee 
S 474 Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment Brandes Similar Last Action: 3/10/2018 S Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
S 476 (c1) Public Records/Compassionate and Palliative Care Plans/Agency for Health Care Administration Brandes Compare Last Action: 3/10/2018 S Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Citations - Statutes (12)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 395.1041 Access to emergency services and care. Page 4 (pdf) 400.142 Emergency medication kits; orders not to resuscitate. Page 5 (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 6 (pdf) 400.605 Administration; forms; fees; rules; inspections; fines. Page 7 (pdf) 400.6095 Patient admission; assessment; plan of care; discharge; death. Page 7 (pdf) 401.35 Rules. Page 8 (pdf) 401.45 Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability. Page 9 (pdf) 401.451 Page 10 (pdf) 429.255 Use of personnel; emergency care. Page 21 (pdf) 429.73 Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes. Page 21 (pdf) 456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement. Page 22 (pdf) 765.205 Responsibility of the surrogate. Page 23 (pdf)