Illinois · statute · 410 ILCS 22 · 25 active provisions
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 1. Short title; references to Act. (a) Short title. This Act may be cited as the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act. (b) References to Act. This Act may be referred to as Deb's Law.(Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.)
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 5. Findings and intent. (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Medical aid in dying is part of general medical care and complements other end-of-life options, such as comfort care, pain control, palliative care, and hospice care, for…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Adult" means an individual 18 years of age or older. "Advanced practice registered nurse" means an advanced practice registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who is certified as a ps…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 15. Informed consent. (a) Nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the amount of information provided to a patient to ensure the patient can make a fully informed health care decision. (b) An attending physician must provide suffi…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 20. Standard of care. Nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted to lower the applicable standard of care for the health care professionals participating under this Act. (Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.)
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 25. Qualification. (a) A qualified patient with a terminal disease may request a prescription for medication under this Act in the following manner: (1) The qualified patient may orally request a prescription for medication under this…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 30. Form of written request. (a) A written request for medication under this Act shall be in substantially the form under subsection (e), signed and dated by the requesting patient, and witnessed in the presence of the patient by at le…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 35. Attending physician responsibilities. (a) Following the request of a patient for aid in dying, the attending physician shall conduct an evaluation of the patient and: (1) determine whether the patient has a terminal disease or has…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 40. Consulting physician responsibilities. A consulting physician shall: (1) conduct an evaluation of the patient and review the patient's relevant medical records, including the evaluation pursuant to Section 45, if such evaluation wa…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 45. Referral for determination that the requesting patient has mental capacity. (a) If either the attending physician or the consulting physician has doubts whether the individual has mental capacity and if either one is unable to conf…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 50. Residency requirement. (a) Only requests made by Illinois residents may be granted under this Act. (b) A patient is able to establish residency through any one or more of the following means: (1) possession of a driver's license or…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 55. Safe disposal of unused medications. A person who has custody or control of medication prescribed pursuant to this Act after the qualified patient's death shall dispose of the medication by delivering it to the nearest qualified fa…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 60. Health care professional protections; no duty to provide aid in dying. (a) A health care professional shall not be under any duty, by law or contract, to participate in the provision of aid-in-dying care to a patient as set forth i…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 65. Health care entity protections and permissible prohibitions and duties. (a) A health care entity shall not be under any duty, by law or contract, to participate in the provision of aid-in-dying care to a patient as set forth in thi…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 70. Immunities for actions in good faith; prohibition against reprisals. (a) Except as set forth in Section 65, a health care professional or health care entity shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability, licensing sanctions,…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 75. Reporting requirements. (a) Within 45 days after the effective date of this Act, the Department shall create and post to its website an Attending Physician Checklist Form and Attending Physician Follow-Up Form to facilitate collect…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 80. Effect on construction of wills, contracts, and statutes. (a) No provision in a contract, will, or other agreement, whether written or oral, that would determine whether a patient may make or rescind a request pursuant to this Act…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 85. Insurance or annuity policies. (a) The sale, procurement, or issuance of a life, health, or accident insurance policy, annuity policy, or the rate charged for a policy shall not be conditioned upon or affected by a patient's act of…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 90. Death certificate. (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the attending physician may sign the death certificate of a qualified patient who obtained and self-administered a prescription for medication pursuant to this Act. (b) Whe…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 95. Liabilities and penalties. (a) Nothing in this Act limits civil or criminal liability arising from: (1) Intentionally or knowingly altering or forging a patient's request for medication pursuant to this Act or concealing or destroy…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 100. Construction. (a) Nothing in this Act authorizes a physician or any other person, including the qualified patient, to end the qualified patient's life by lethal injection, lethal infusion, mercy killing, homicide, murder, manslaug…
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 105. Rulemaking authority. The Department of Public Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs may adopt rules for the implementation and administration of this Act.(Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.)
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 110. Severability. The provisions of this Act are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes. (Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.)
(Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26; text omitted.)
(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect 9 months after becoming law. (Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.)