AK SB172

Prohibits health care institutions from interpreting do not resuscitate (DNR) orders as preventing provision of life-sustaining procedures to patients.

Requires physicians to obtain express consent from patients or their authorized representatives before issuing DNR orders, with limited exceptions when patients lack capacity and have no authorized decision-maker.

Prevents health care providers from declining to comply with DNR orders for reasons of conscience, while allowing institutional conscience-based objections for other medical decisions.

Prohibits health care providers and institutions from declining to comply with requests for cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other resuscitative measures, regardless of medical effectiveness or conscience objections.

Establishes procedures for revoking DNR orders and specifies that violations of consent requirements do not constitute homicide, while protecting providers acting in good faith under the law.