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Panel rejects medical assistance-in-dying bill after emotional testimony, 8-2
Summary
House Bill 598, which would have permitted medical assistance in dying with multiple safeguards, failed in the Population Health Subcommittee by a 2-8 vote on March 4, 2025, after testimony from physicians, ethicists and advocates for and against the measure.
The Population Health Subcommittee voted 2-8 on March 4, 2025, to reject House Bill 598, a measure that would have allowed medical assistance in dying for terminally ill adults under specified safeguards.
Sponsor Representative Freeman described the proposal as a way to give terminal patients a choice to end severe suffering and said the measure is modeled on statutes in other states. He summarized the procedure to the committee: a verbal and notarized written request, confirmation by an attending physician and a second physician, a psychological evaluation to rule out coercion, a prognosis of six months or less to live, and a requirement that the patient be able to self-administer the medication. "It's completely…
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