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NJ A407

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/9/2024

Primary Sponsor

Robert Auth

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Origin

General Assembly

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Repeals the "Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act" (P.L.2019, c.59), which currently allows terminally ill patients to request and self-administer medication to end their lives

  • Removes the exemption that protected medical providers from incurring a "duty to warn and protect" when a terminally ill patient requests life-ending medication

  • Reinstates aiding suicide as a criminal offense without exception for medical aid in dying, making it a second-degree crime if the conduct causes suicide or attempted suicide, or a fourth-degree crime otherwise

  • Takes effect immediately upon enactment

Legislative Description

Repeals "Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act."

Judiciary

Last Action

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee

1/9/2024

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/9/2024

Full Bill Text

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