AL HB496

Prohibits any person or health care provider from deliberately advising, assisting, encouraging, or providing aid in dying to another person, establishing this as a Class C felony.

Defines "aid in dying" as providing the means or manner for another person to commit suicide with knowledge that the person deliberately intends to use those means.

Allows surviving family members, beneficiaries, executors, or administrators to bring wrongful death civil actions against those who aid in dying resulting in death.

Permits physicians and health care providers to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment per patient wishes, administer palliative care and pain medication, and participate in executions by lethal injection.

Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.