PRINTER'S NO. 2373
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1196
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY CUTLER, HICKERNELL, GREINER, MILLARD, HELM,
A. HARRIS, SAYLOR, JOZWIAK, RYAN, ZIMMERMAN, D. COSTA, MOUL,
WARD, PHILLIPS-HILL, SONNEY, WATSON, SIMMONS, BAKER,
CHARLTON, FRANKEL, TOPPER, GILLESPIE, SCHLOSSBERG, MAHER,
CALTAGIRONE, STURLA, MUSTIO, KAMPF, MACKENZIE AND BRIGGS,
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions
relating to health care, further providing for applicability,
for definitions and for criminal penalties; in living wills,
further providing for emergency medical services; in out-of-
hospital nonresuscitation, further providing for definitions,
for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for
absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency
medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory
committee and providing for discontinuance; providing for
Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment; and making
editorial changes.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5421(a) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 5421. Applicability.
(a) General rule.--This chapter applies to advance health
care directives [and], out-of-hospital nonresuscitation orders
and Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment.
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