SB 474: 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; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish and maintain a database of compassionate and palliative care plans by a specified date; authorizing specified personnel to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a POLST form that contains an order not to resuscitate the patient; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs, in consultation with the agency, to adopt by rule procedures for the implementation of POLST forms in hospice care, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2018
Last Action: 3/10/2018 Senate - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Last Action: 3/10/2018 Senate - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
- Health Policy (HP)
- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
- Appropriations (AP)
Bill History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 10/10/2017 | Senate |
• Filed |
| 10/25/2017 | Senate |
• Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 38 |
| 1/9/2018 | Senate |
• Introduced -SJ 38 |
| 1/11/2018 | Senate |
• On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/16/18, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building |
| 1/16/2018 | Senate |
• Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 2 -SJ 161 |
| 1/17/2018 | Senate |
• Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services -SJ 161 |
| 2/9/2018 | Senate |
• On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/14/18, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed |
| 3/10/2018 | Senate |
• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services |
