25RS HB 408

House Bill 408

Actions

Last Action	02/07/25: to Committee on Committees (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	1539
Sponsors	A. Camuel, E. Hancock
Summary of Original Version	Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; establish conditions required to make request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; prohibit applicability of provisions to ending a patient's life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia; establish that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified patient; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified patient's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified patient's request; state that actions under this Act do not authorize lethal injection, mercy killing or active euthanasia; establish that actions under this Act do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified patient to make a request; create a form for an interpreter for a qualified patient making a request; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified patients; amend KRS 507.020 and 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Death with Dignity Act.
Index Headings of Original Version	Crimes and Punishments - Affirmative defense to murder or manslaughter charge, patient-directed end of life care Deaths - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Drugs and Medicines - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Health and Medical Services - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Insurance - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Insurance, Health - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Mental Health - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Nurses - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Pharmacists - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Physicians and Practitioners - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Public Health - Patient-directed care, end of life, self-administered medication Wills and Estates - Patient-directed care, end of life Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, patient-directed care, end of life Reports Mandated - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, patient-directed care, end of life Short Titles and Popular Names - Kentucky Death with Dignity Act