20250SB__040394CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-14 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-03-24 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-05-01 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-09-02 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-09-11 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-12 ENROLLED 2025-09-17 CHAPTERED 2025-10-03 APPROVED 2025-10-03 FILED 2025-10-03 2025 SB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Senator Blakespear LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Blakespear

An act to repeal

Section 443.215 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. public health End of Life Option Act: sunset. Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, including, among other things, being a resident of the State of California, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life.

Existing law makes specified violations of the act a crime, including knowingly coercing or exerting undue influence on an individual to request or ingest an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. This bill would repeal the January 1, 2031, expiration date of the act, thereby extending the operation of the act indefinitely. By extending the operation of crimes within the act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.

Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. MAJORITY NO YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 443.215 of the Health and Safety Code is repealed.

SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to

Section of

Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of

Section of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of

Section of

Article XIII B of the California Constitution.