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Relating to end-of-life care under guardianships of adults
Sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee
Topics:Courts & civil law
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to end-of-life care decisions under guardianships of adults. Under current law, a court may grant a guardian the ability to make decisions regarding the care, maintenance, health, education, welfare, and safety of the protected person except as otherwise limited by the court, which the guardian may exercise thereafter without prior court approval. The bill provides that this includes end-of-life care decisions (hospice, palliative care, and life-sustaining interventions, and the power to execute, reaffirm, or revoke a do-not-resuscitate or do-not-intubate order).
Read the full explanation
A guardian is only able to make an end-of-life care decision if the guardian has consulted with the protected person not more than days before executing the end-of-life care decision and consulted with the protected person’s attending physician. However, if the protected person is not able to have a meaningful conversation about end-of-life care decisions, a guardian may instead consult with family members and other significant others of the protected person not more than days before executing the end-of-life decision. The bill provides that except for cases in which the protected person’s diagnosis is a terminal illness with life expectancy of six months or less, a guardian may not authorize the withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or authorize any medicine or procedure that terminates the protected person’s life without first obtaining a court order authorizing such action.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Fiscal note
Cost: up to $129,000 Compare with other bills
The total fiscal impact of HF 2577 would be approximately $129,000 per year in increased case costs to the HHS.
- Guardianships, Hospice and End-of-Life Care and Decisions · March 6, 2024
Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§633.635
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
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