PRINTER'S NO. 1285
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1212
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY KHAN, VENKAT, KOSIEROWSKI, MUNROE, SANCHEZ,
KINSEY, HILL-EVANS, PROBST, HANBIDGE, MADDEN, WARREN,
DELLOSO, CERRATO, FLEMING AND GUENST, MAY 19, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, MAY 19, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions
relating to health care, further providing for applicability,
for definitions, for criminal penalties, for emergency
medical services, for definitions, for orders, bracelets and
necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or
necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing
provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for
discontinuance and for Pennsylvania orders for life-
sustaining treatment; and making editorial changes.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5421(a) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 5421. Applicability.
(a) General rule.--This chapter applies to advance health
care directives [and], out-of-hospital nonresuscitation orders
and Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment.
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Section 2. The definitions of "health care provider,"
"medical command physician," "order" and "patient" in section
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