HB 487 Summary

• Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to serve as attending providers and consulting providers for medical aid in dying, in addition to physicians.

• Allows psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners to provide required counseling to qualified patients, alongside psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers.

• Reduces the mandatory waiting period between initial and second oral requests for medical aid in dying from 20 days to 15 days.

• Permits waiver of the 15-day waiting period for terminally ill individuals expected to die within 15 days of their initial oral request, allowing immediate reiteration of the request.