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House rejects expansion of who may sign advance health-care directives
Summary
The House voted 54-12 to reject first substitute S.B. 117, which would have allowed physician assistants and psychologists to sign and implement certain "life with dignity" health-care orders; sponsors said the change reflected years of study while opponents warned the decision is too consequential to broaden.
The Utah House on Feb. 11 defeated first substitute S.B. 117, Advanced Healthcare Directive Act amendments, after an often-emotional floor debate about who should be authorized to sign and carry out end-of-life orders.
Representative Janice Mascaro, the House sponsor, told colleagues the bill followed about three years of study and would add additional clinicians — including physician assistants — to the list of professionals authorized to sign the medical orders that implement a "life with dignity" directive. "This bill authorizes them to sign the orders needed to carry out the patient's…
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