AK HB309

Requires express consent from patients or authorized decision-makers before physicians can issue do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, with limited exceptions for incapacitated patients without surrogates.

Prohibits health care providers, institutions, and facilities from declining to comply with requests for cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other resuscitative measures based on conscience objections or medical futility determinations.

Establishes procedures for revoking DNR orders when patients lack capacity, when authorized representatives request revocation, or when patients under 18 years old request revocation through parents or guardians.

Allows physicians to revoke DNR orders issued by other physicians if they have a physician-patient relationship or health care obligation to the patient.

Adds cardiopulmonary resuscitation and resuscitative measures as explicit health care decisions under the advance directive definition and provides liability protections for good faith compliance with DNR orders issued according to statute.