§ 25-48-114. Effect on Wills, Contracts, and Statutes
A provision in a contract, will, or other agreement, whether written or oral, that would affect whether an individual may make or rescind a request for medical aid in dying pursuant to this article is invalid. An obligation owing under any currently existing contract must not be conditioned upon, or affected by, an individual’s act […]
§ 25-48-115. Insurance or Annuity Policies
The sale, procurement, or issuance of, or the rate charged for, any life, health, or accident insurance or annuity policy must not be conditioned upon, or affected by, an individual’s act of making or rescinding a request for medical aid-in-dying medication in accordance with this article. A qualified individual’s act of self-administering medical aid-in-dying medication […]
§ 25-48-116. Immunity for Actions in Good Faith – Prohibition Against Reprisals
A person is not subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for acting in good faith under this article, which includes being present when a qualified individual self-administers the prescribed medical aid-in-dying medication. Except as provided for in section 25-48-118, a health-care provider or professional organization or association shall not subject an […]
§ 25-48-117. No Duty to Prescribe or Dispense
A health-care provider may choose whether to participate in providing medical aid-in-dying medication to an individual in accordance with this article. If a health-care provider is unable or unwilling to carry out an individual’s request for medical aid-in-dying medication made in accordance with this article, and the individual transfers his or her care to a […]
§ 25-48-118. Health-Care Facility Permissible Prohibitions – Sanctions if Provider Violates Policy
A health-care facility may prohibit a physician employed or under contract from writing a prescription for medical aid-in-dying medication for a qualified individual who intends to use the medical aid-in-dying medication on the facility’s premises. The health- care facility must notify the physician in writing of its policy with regard to prescriptions for medical aid-in-dying […]
§ 25-48-119. Liabilities
A person commits a class 2 felony and is subject to punishment in accordance with section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. if the person, knowingly or intentionally causes an individual’s death by: Forging or altering a request for medical aid-in-dying medication to end an individual’s life without the individual’s authorization; or Concealing or destroying a rescission of a […]
§ 25-48-120. Safe Disposal of Unused Medical Aid-in-Dying Medications
A person who has custody or control of medical aid-in-dying medication dispensed under this article that the terminally ill individual decides not to use or that remains unused after the terminally ill individual’s death shall dispose of the unused medical aid-in- dying medication either by: Returning the unused medical aid-in-dying medication to the attending physician […]
§ 25-48-121. Actions Complying With Article Not a Crime
Nothing in this article authorizes a physician or any other person to end an individual’s life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or euthanasia. Actions taken in accordance with this article do not, for any purpose, constitute suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing, homicide, or elder abuse under the “Colorado Criminal Code”, as set forth in title […]
§ 25-48-122. Claims by Government Entity for Costs
A government entity that incurs costs resulting from an individual terminating his or her life pursuant to this article in a public place has a claim against the estate of the individual to recover the costs and reasonable attorney fees related to enforcing the claim. Source: Initiated 2016: Entire article added, Proposition 106, L. 2017, […]
§ 25-48-123. No Effect on Advance Medical Directives
Nothing in this article shall change the legal effect of: A declaration made under article 18 of title 15, C.R.S., directing that life-sustaining procedures be withheld or withdrawn; A cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive executed under article 18.6 of title 15, C.R.S.; or An advance medical directive executed under article 18.7 of title 15, C.R.S. Source: Initiated […]