Loading chat...
GA SB305
Bill
Status
Passed
5/3/2016
Primary Sponsor
Renee Unterman
Click for details
AI Summary
- Requires the Georgia Department of Health to notify the chairpersons and all members of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee at least 60 days before implementing any modification to the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form, effective July 1, 2016
- Amends Code Section 31-1-14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, which governs POLST forms used to provide directions regarding a patient's end-of-life care
- POLST forms may be voluntarily executed by a patient with decision-making capacity and an attending physician, or by a patient's authorized person and an attending physician if the patient lacks decision-making capacity
- POLST forms may be executed when a patient has a serious illness and the attending physician judges the patient will die within 365 days, or at any time for patients diagnosed with dementia or another progressive, degenerative brain disease
- Health care facilities retain the ability to impose additional administrative or procedural requirements regarding end-of-life care decisions beyond the POLST form
Legislative Description
Health; Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form; require department to provide certain notification prior to modification
Last Action
Effective Date
7/1/2016
Full Bill Text
No bill text available