HB 2583 Summary

• Establishes Arizona's Medical Aid in Dying law allowing terminally ill adults with capacity to request a prescription for life-ending medication that they self-administer.

• Requires a 15-day waiting period between initial oral request and written request, with provisions to waive this period if the patient is expected to die within 15 days based on attending physician attestation.

• Mandates that two physicians (attending and consulting) confirm the patient's terminal illness diagnosis, mental capacity, and voluntary decision-making, and requires mental health professional evaluation if either physician suspects psychiatric or psychological impairment.

• Protects health care providers from civil or criminal liability and professional discipline for participating in medical aid in dying in good faith compliance with the law, while allowing facilities to prohibit participation on their premises with advance notice.

• Requires the underlying terminal illness to be listed as cause of death on death certificates, with prohibited reference to the patient's act of self-administering medication, and establishes criminal penalties for altering requests, coercing patients, or destroying related documents.