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IN HB1516
Bill
Status
1/17/2019
Primary Sponsor
Cindy Kirchhofer
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AI Summary
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Creates a new comprehensive health care advance directive system (IC 16-36-7) allowing adults to designate health care representatives, express treatment preferences including end-of-life wishes, and grant authority over health information access
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Permits parents, legal custodians, or legal guardians to sign advance directives on behalf of minors, with directives expiring 91 days after the minor turns 18 unless confirmed in writing or extended by court order
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Requires the Indiana State Department of Health to develop and distribute a standardized sample advance directive form
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Prohibits new health care powers of attorney from being executed under IC 30-5 after December 31, 2022, while grandfathering documents executed before January 1, 2023
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Consolidates the definition of "life prolonging procedures" into a single statute (IC 16-18-2-203) covering medical procedures using mechanical or artificial means to sustain vital functions and prolong dying, excluding comfort care
Legislative Description
Health care advance directive. Allows an individual to make a health care advance directive that gives instructions or expresses preferences or desires concerning any aspect of the individual's health care or health information and to designate a health care representative to make health care decisions and receive health information for the individual. Consolidates definitions of "life prolonging procedures". Allows a minor's parent, legal custodian, or legal guardian to sign an advance directive on behalf of the minor. Requires the state department of health to prepare a sample advance directive. Provides that the appointment of a representative or attorney in fact to consent to health care that was legally executed before January 1, 2023, is valid as executed. Adds cross references. Makes conforming changes. Makes technical changes.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
1/17/2019