SF 2101: Creating the Iowa our care, our options Act, and providing penalties

What it does

This bill creates the Iowa our care, our options Act. The bill includes findings relating to end-of-life care and treatment options and provides definitions of terms used in the bill. The bill provides a process for an adult patient who is mentally capable, is a resident of the state, and has been determined by the patient’s attending provider and consulting provider to be terminally ill, to request medication that the patient may self-administer to end the patient’s life. Such patient must make two oral requests to the patient’s attending provider, followed by one written request to the patient’s attending provider to request the medication.

Senate subcommittee · named January 25, 2024

• Sen. Jeff Edler (R)
• Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 0 for, 7 against

Against: Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Right to Life Committee; Pulse Life Advocates; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

In plain words

1. January 24, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. January 25, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Edler, Costello and Trone Garriott