Patient-directed Medical Orders

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Revising legislative findings and intent to include palliative care for progressive illnesses; providing a purpose and requirements for a patient-directed medical order; requiring that certain health care services be provided to the principal regardless of the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures; authorizing physicians, physician assistants, and certain advanced practice registered nurses to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures under certain circumstances without penalty, etc.

Every action

5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 10, 2025SenateFiled
2. Feb 20, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy · Senate Health Policy
3. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
5. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Health Policy · Senate Health Policy

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 1 cosponsor: 1 Democrat.

• Ana Maria RodriguezR Primary sponsor · District 40