Bill > LD410

Introduced Session

This bill prohibits health care practitioners, health care providers and facilities such as nursing homes, hospitals and children's homes from withholding life-sustaining measures or instituting a do-not-resuscitate order for an unemancipated minor without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian of the minor. Health care practitioners, health care providers and facilities may not hinder a parent or legal guardian of a minor to seek another medical opinion or transfer the minor to another health care provider or facility and are required to continue providing life-sustaining measures until the transfer, continue to allow access to the minor and the minor's medical records and inform the parent or legal guardian of any policies regarding resuscitation, life-sustaining measures or measures considered nonbeneficial, ineffective, futile or inappropriate for patients or residents. The bill provides that there is a presumption that the continuation of life is in a minor's best interest and that the parental or legal guardian authority does not end and the authority of a court to order the withdrawal of life-sustaining measures from a minor does not take precedence over the objections of a parent or legal guardian of the minor unless there is destruction of the circulatory and respiratory systems and the entire brain of the minor.

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Reagan Paul (R)*,  Abigail Griffin (R),  David Haggan (R),  Kimberly Haggan (R),  Kathy Javner (R),  Tracy Quint (R), 

Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Mar 20, 2025 (on 03/20/2025)

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