A bill to regulate physician assistance for patient-requested life-ending medication; to require safeguards for determining that a patient is qualified to receive life-ending medication; to require documentation and reporting; to specify certain legal consequences regarding insurance; to provide for civil and criminal immunity and freedom from professional sanctions for persons acting in conformity with this act; to provide for penalties and sanctions for violations of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
House Bills 5825 thru 5828 create a regulated process for terminally ill adults in Michigan to request physician-assisted life-ending medication, with strict safeguards, documentation, and legal protections, while repealing prior prohibitions on assisted suicide.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Government Operations
