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Advance health care directive form.

It became law on Sep 8, 2023.

CA AB 1029 · Assembly Bill · 2023–2024

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Latest action
Sep 8, 2023

What it does

Existing law establishes the requirements for executing a written advance health care directive that is legally sufficient to direct health care decisions. Existing law provides a form that an individual may use or modify to create an advance health care directive. The statutory form includes a space to designate an agent to make health care decisions, as well as optional spaces to designate a first alternate agent and 2nd alternate agent. Existing law defines "health care decision," as specified. Existing law authorizes an individual to provide an "individual health care instruction" as the individual's authorized written or oral direction regarding a health care decision for the…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Sep 8, 2023

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