This chart summarizes bills before U.S. state legislatures in 2024 regarding medical aid in dying. All these bills are closely modeled on the Oregon model. But some vary especially along four dimensions:
(1) Do they allow only physicians to provide MAID? Or do they also permit other types of clinicians (especially APRN/NP) to provide MAID?
(2) Do they require a traditional 15-day waiting period? Or do they permit a shorter waiting period? Or do they permit waiver/exemption from the waiting period?
(3) Do they limit MAID to only state residents?
(4) Do they require facilities to be open and transparent about whether they participate in MAID – whether by posting policies on their website or by filing standardized forms with the state DOH?
Note that Colorado and New Jersey are amending existing MAID statutes. The remaining states seek to authorize MAID for the first time.
This chart expands and updates Pope, Medical Aid in Dying: Key Variations among U.S. State Laws, 14(1) JOURNAL OF HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES LAW 25-59 (2020).
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