Bill Summary

SB 228 Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment (2017 Session)
Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment; Establishing the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program within the Department of Health; providing limited immunity for legal representatives and specified health care providers acting in good faith in reliance on POLST forms; authorizing emergency medical transportation providers to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other medical interventions if presented with POLST forms that contain an order not to resuscitate, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2017
01/03/17
SENATE
Filed
01/12/17
SENATE
Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
05/05/17
SENATE
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
05/08/17
SENATE
Died in Judiciary
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Filed on 01/03/17
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