Bills

HB1685 (2021)

Title: Amend Arkansas Healthcare Decisions Act
Summary: This bill weakens end-of-life care by allowing healthcare workers who are not physicians to work on end-of-life decisions with patients and family members. It also makes it easier to deny nutrition and hydration to a dying person. Family Council Action Committee supports protecting life from conception to natural death and opposed this bill. Outcome: The House defeated the bill by a vote of 31-55.
Outcome: Failed to Pass

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