Bill Summary

SB 474 Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment (2018 Session)
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Sponsors
by Brandes
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Summary
Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment; Establishing the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program within the Department of Health; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish and maintain a database of compassionate and palliative care plans by a specified date; authorizing specified personnel to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a POLST form that contains an order not to resuscitate the patient; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs, in consultation with the agency, to adopt by rule procedures for the implementation of POLST forms in hospice care, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2018
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committees of reference
   S Health Policy
» S Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
   S Appropriations
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Actions
10/10/17
SENATE
Filed
10/25/17
SENATE
Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
01/11/18
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Health Policy, 01/16/18, 4:00 pm, 412 K
01/16/18
SENATE
Favorable by Health Policy; 6 Yeas, 2 Nays
01/17/18
SENATE
Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
02/09/18
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/14/18, 4:00 pm, 401 S
02/14/18
HOUSE 
Temporarily Postponed by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
03/10/18
SENATE
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
03/10/18
SENATE
Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
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bill text & filed amendments
0474
Filed on 10/10/17
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Amendment 156796 DE
Brandes
Filed on 02/13/18
Replaced by CS
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Statute Citations
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