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Senate makes End of Life Option Act permanent by removing sunset
Summary
The Senate voted to remove the sunset clause from California’s End of Life Option Act, making the medical aid-in-dying statute permanent after lawmakers cited nine years of data showing the law functioning as intended.
The Senate on a 25-6 vote removed the sunset clause from the End of Life Option Act, making California’s medical aid-in-dying law permanent.
Senator Toni Atkins, authoring SB 403, told colleagues on the floor that “medical aid in dying gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of 6 months or less to live the option to request from their doctor a prescription for medication that they can then decide to self administer and die peacefully in their sleep.” She said nine years of state data show the law “is working exactly as lawmakers…
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