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OR HB3080

Bill

Status

Failed

6/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Emerson Levy

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Establishes a prioritized list of individuals who can serve as health care representative for an incapacitated person without an advance directive: guardian, spouse, adult children, parents, adult siblings, adult grandchildren, adult nieces/nephews, adult aunts/uncles, or a qualified close friend who files a signed declaration

  • Allows a close friend to serve as health care representative for up to six months after providing a declaration under penalty of perjury demonstrating familiarity with the principal and their personal values

  • Prohibits health care representatives from making decisions on convulsive treatment, psychosurgery, sterilization, abortion, life-sustaining procedures (except under specified conditions), requesting end-of-life medication under the Death With Dignity Act, or mental health treatment if the principal has a valid declaration

  • Requires unanimous agreement among available family members within the same priority class before health care decisions can be made; if a higher-priority person refuses treatment, lower-priority individuals cannot authorize it

  • Expands the definition of who cannot serve as health care representative to include any compensated caregiver unrelated to the principal, in addition to existing prohibitions on certain medical staff and facility employees

Legislative Description

Relating to health care decision making for incapacitated individuals.

Last Action

In committee upon adjournment.

6/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/20/2025
Behavioral Health and Health Care1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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