Sections 1 through 8 [24-7C-1 to 24-7C-8 NMSA 1978] of this act may be cited as the “End-of-Life Options Act” or the “Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act”. History: Laws 2021, ch. 132, § 1. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 2021, ch. 132 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § […]
As used in the End-of-Life Options Act: A. “adult” means a resident of the state who is eighteen years of age or older; B. “capacity” means an individual’s ability to understand and appreciate health care options available to that individual, including significant benefits and risks, and to make and communicate an informed health care decision. […]
A prescribing health care provider may provide a prescription for medical aid in dying medication to an individual only after the prescribing health care provider has: A. determined that the individual has: (1) capacity; (2) a terminal illness; (3) voluntarily made the request for medical aid in dying; and (4) the ability to self-administer the […]
If an individual has a recent history of a mental health disorder or an intellectual disability that could cause impaired judgment with regard to end-of-life medical decision making, or if, in the opinion of the prescribing health care provider or consulting health care provider, an individual currently has a mental health disorder or an intellectual […]
A prescription for medical aid in dying medication shall: A. not be filled until forty-eight hours after the prescription for medical aid in dying medication has been written, unless the qualified individual’s prescribing health care provider has medically confirmed that the qualified individual may, within reasonable medical judgment, die before the expiration of the waiting […]
A health care provider shall inform a terminally ill patient of all reasonable options related to the patient’s care that are legally available to terminally ill patients that meet the medical standards of care for end-of-life care. History: Laws 2021, ch. 132, § 6. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 2021, ch. 132 contained no effective […]
A. A person shall not be subject to criminal liability, licensing sanctions or other professional disciplinary action for: (1) participating, or refusing to participate, in medical aid in dying in good faith compliance with the provisions of the End-of-Life Options Act; or (2) being present when a qualified patient self-administers the prescribed medical aid in […]
Nothing in the End-of-Life Options Act shall be construed to authorize a physician or any other person to end an individual’s life by lethal injection, mercy killing or euthanasia. Actions taken in accordance with the End-of-Life Options Act shall not be construed, for any purpose, to constitute suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide or […]
