Under existing law, a surrogate may be designated to determine whether to provide, withdraw, or withhold life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration to a terminally ill patient if the patient has no advance directive for health care, provided the surrogate meets certain qualifications and certifies and attests to meeting the qualifications.
This bill would remove the requirement that a surrogate's certification be notarized.
Forwarded to Governor on April 7, 2022 at 5:36 p.m. on April 7, 2022.
Assigned Act No. 2022-434.
Clerk of the House Certification
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Concurred in Second House Amendment
Oliver motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 967
Concurrence Requested
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 958
Waggoner motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 661
Healthcare Amendment Offered
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 75
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 74
Oliver Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Source: Alabama Legislature