The California End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016. This compassionate option allows for an eligible terminally ill adult, with a prognosis of six months or less to live, to request and receive a prescription form their doctor that they can self-ingest to peacefully end their suffering.
Compassion & Choices Action Network is proud to share that, due to our advocacy and the leadership of Senator Catherine Blakespear and other legislative champions, SB 403, the bill to make the End of Life Option Act permanent, has been signed into law on October 3, 2025, by Governor Gavin Newsom. We are so pleased that in times of great uncertainty, we have worked alongside champions and partners to ensure that everyone in the Golden State will continue to have access to the End of Life Option Act in perpetuity.
The CDSS issued a notice to adult and senior care facilities about the End of Life Option Act. Residents who qualify for medical aid in dying living in assisted facilities and other adult or senior care facilities are able to take their medication in their home and can’t be evicted for choosing this option.
(Sacramento, CA – July 6, 2021) Compassion & Choices Action Network today applauded the California State Assembly Judiciary Committee for passing Senate Bill 380 by a vote of 6-1. SB 380, co-authored by Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), would improve access to the California End of Life Option Act and make it permanent. The bill now moves…
Compassion & Choices Action Network today applauded the California State Assembly Judiciary Committee for passing Senate Bill 380 by a vote of 6-1. SB 380, co-authored by Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), would improve access to the California End of Life Option Act and make it permanent. The bill now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The…
Un informe nuevo sobre la ley de ayuda médica para morir en California indica que menos personas utilizaron la ley en el 2020, comparado con el 2019, lo que muestra la necesidad de mejorar el acceso a la ley, mediante la aprobación del End of Life Act SB 380 o Medida de Ley de Opción…
A new report on California’s law that allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults to use medical aid in dying to peacefully end their suffering shows that slightly fewer people used the law in 2020 compared to 2019, showing the need to improve access to the law by passing SB 380. The California Department of Public…
(Sacramento, CA ) Compassion & Choices Action Network agradeció hoy al Comité de Salud de la Asamblea de California por aprobar la medida Senate Bill 380, con una votación de 10-3. La Senadora Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) y el Asambleísta Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), son coautores de la SB 380 . La propuesta mejoraría el…
(Sacramento, CA) Compassion & Choices Action Network today thanked the California State Assembly Health Committee for passing Senate Bill 380 by a vote of 10-3. SB 380, co-authored by Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), would improve access to the California End of Life Option Act and make it permanent. The bill now moves to the…
(Sacramento, CA) Compassion & Choices Action Network today praised the California Senate for passing SB 380 (26-8), a bill that would improve access to California’s End of Life Option Act and make it permanent. Senate Bill 380, co-authored by Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and Asm. Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), now moves to the California State Assembly. The End…
Barbara Meislin, widely and affectionately known around the San Francisco Bay Area as “the Purple Lady,” is the award-winning author of No One Can Ever Steal Your Rainbow, a singer/songwriter, French teacher and healer through music with groups like The Threshold Choir, which brings bedside music to the terminally ill. But the focal point of…
(Sacramento, CA) Compassion & Choices Action Network aplaudió hoy al Comité Judicial del Senado del Estado de California por su apoyo, al pasar la Medida 380 fuera del Comité y acercarla para su aprobación. La Senadora Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) y el Asambleísta Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), son coautores de la SB 380. Dicha medida…
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