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This bill requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives. A "proxy directive" is defined to mean a written document, executed in accordance with applicable law, that designates an adult with decision-making capacity to act as the declarant's representative in the event that the declarant is determined by a court or authorized practitioner to lack decision-making capacity following the execution of the document. Under the bill, a long-term care facility will be required to meet with each resident at least once annually to determine whether the resident's proxy directive, if any, is accurate and current. Nothing in the bill's provisions would be deemed to require a resident to have a proxy directive.

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Reginald Atkins (D)*,  Shanique Speight (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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