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Assembly committee moves to preserve California’s End of Life Option Act permanently with SB 403
Summary
SB 403 would remove the 01/01/2031 sunset from California's End of Life Option Act, making the medical aid-in-dying law permanent. Supporters — including physicians, hospice social workers and family members — described the law as functioning safely and compassionately over nine years; the committee passed SB 403 to the Judiciary Committee.
SB 403, which would remove the sunset provision from California’s End of Life Option Act, won committee approval on July 8 and will proceed to the Judiciary Committee. The bill’s author, Senator Blake Spear, and multiple witnesses described the law as working safely since it took effect in 2016 and urged the committee to make it permanent.
Senator Blake Spear told the committee the End of Life Option Act gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less another option and reviewed the law’s…
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