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Senate votes to make California’s End of Life Option Act permanent
Summary
Senators passed SB 403 to remove the sunset clause from California’s End of Life Option Act, which allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults to request a prescription for self‑administered medication to end life. Sponsors cited nine years of data showing safe practice; opponents sought continued review and reporting.
Senate Bill 403, authored and presented on the floor by Senator Blakespear, would remove the statutory sunset from the End of Life Option Act and make California’s medical aid‑in‑dying law permanent.
Blakespear said the law has operated for nine years and “9 years of data shows the law is working exactly as lawmakers intended, and medical aid in dying is being safely practiced in California.” She described the law’s eligibility framework — mentally capable adults with a prognosis of six months or less may request a prescription that they may self‑administer — and urged colleagues to remove the looming sunset so diagnosed…
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