The Colorado Legislature has just passed an amendment to the state's medical aid in dying law. Colorado follows five other states (California, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington) which also amended their original MAID laws to make them more accessible.
The bill changes current law by:
- Allowing advance practice nurses the same prescribing authority as physicians
- Reducing the waiting period between oral requests from 15 days to 7 days
- Eliminating the waiting period if the prognosis is less than 48 hours.
- Prohibiting using parenteral injection or infusion for self-administered aid-in-dying medication
- Placing disclosure requirements on providers and facilities that refuse to participate
- Prohibiting facilities from prohibiting providers from providing select information to patients
- Stating that medical aid-in-dying must not prevent the state from receiving federal funds
- Codifying certain health and life insurance requirements, and prohibits health insurance carriers from attempting to coerce a request for medical aid-in-dying.
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