HB574 Alabama 2016 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Minors, health services, cert. minors auth. to execute power of attorney for cert. health care purposes and advanced health care directives. Sec. 22-8-4 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a minor who is 14 years of age or older, or has graduated from high school, or is married, or having been married is divorced or is pregnant may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, health, or mental health services for himself or herself, and the consent of no other person is necessary</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize a minor who is 14 years of age or older, or has graduated from high school, or is married, or having been married is divorced or is pregnant to: (1) execute a durable power of attorney designating another person to make health care decisions for himself or herself if the minor is no longer capable of making those decisions; and (2) execute a living will, a living will designating a health care proxy, or an advanced health care directive</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Section 22-8-4, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to consent for health services by a minor, to authorize certain minors to execute a durable power of attorney for the purpose of making health care decisions upon the minor's incapacitation; and to authorize certain minors to execute a living will designating a health care proxy or an advanced health care directive. </p>

Subjects

Health