SB 206: Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment
GENERAL BILL by Brandes
Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment; Establishing the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program within the Department of Health for specified purposes; specifying which document takes precedence when directives in POLST forms conflict with other advance directives; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, by a specified date, to establish and maintain a clearinghouse for compassionate and palliative care plans consisting of a database accessible to health care providers and facilities and other authorized individuals; authorizing specified personnel to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a POLST form that contains an order not to resuscitate the patient, etc.
Last Action: 5/3/2019 Senate - Died in Health Policy
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
- Health Policy (HP)
- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
- Appropriations (AP)
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 12/21/2018 Senate • Filed
1/10/2019 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 48
3/5/2019 Senate • Introduced -SJ 47
5/3/2019 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Health Policy
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SB 206, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 12/21/2018 at 9:12 AM
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF Analyses: None Related Bills (1)
Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills S 208 Public Records/Clearinghouse for Compassionate and Palliative Care Plans Brandes Linked Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Health Policy 
Citations - Statutes (12)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 400.142 Emergency medication kits; orders not to resuscitate. Page 15 (pdf) 400.487 Home health service agreements; physician’s, physician assistant’s, and advanced practice registered nurse’s treatment orders; patient assessment; establishment and review of plan of care; provision of services; orders not to resuscitate. Page 15 (pdf) 400.605 Administration; forms; fees; rules; inspections; fines. Page 17 (pdf) 400.6095 Patient admission; assessment; plan of care; discharge; death. Page 18 (pdf) 401.35 Rules. Page 19 (pdf) 401.45 Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability. Page 19 (pdf) 401.451 Page 4 (pdf) 408.064 Page 12 (pdf) 429.255 Use of personnel; emergency care. Page 20 (pdf) 429.73 Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes. Page 21 (pdf) 456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement. Page 21 (pdf) 765.205 Responsibility of the surrogate. Page 22 (pdf)