To review the bill, the Assembly has formed a Select Committee consisting of the following members:
Assm. David Orentlicher (D-Las Vegas) – Committee Chair
Assm. Cecelia González (D-Las Vegas)
Assm. Danielle Gallant (R-Las Vegas)
Assm. Cinthia Moore (D-North Las Vegas)
Assm. Rebecca Edgeworth (R-Las Vegas)
In a recent 2024 poll, 63% Nevadans support that terminally ill patients should be allowed the option to use medical aid in dying.
Faced with a terminal diagnosis, people in your state deserve the full range end-of-life care options, including medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully.
The power of personal stories to inspire and drive change is undeniable. Everyone has a story, and we invite you to share yours.
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta has joined Compassion & Choices to launch a bilingual education campaign featuring online videos promoting legislation to expand end-of-life care options in New Mexico, Nevada, New Jersey and New York. “I watched my mother, Alicia St. John Chavez, die in agony from breast cancer,” says Dolores, who holds Presidential Medal…
Dolores Huerta, ícono de derechos civiles, se unió hoy a Compassion & Choices en una campaña educativa bilingüe con videos para promover medidas que amplían las opciones de cuidados de fin de vida en Nevada, Nuevo México, Nueva York y Nueva Jersey. Los videos serán difundidos a traves de Facebook y Twitter. En la campaña…
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta today joined Compassion & Choices to launch a statewide bilingual education campaign promoting legislation to expand end-of-life care options. The ‘End of Life Options FOR ALL’ campaign, features Dolores Huerta in videos and photos urging fellow Hispanics to join her in support of a bill that would allow terminally ill…
(Carson City, NV 25 de febrero del 2019) Compassion & Choices y Death with Dignity National Center o Centro Nacional de Muerte con Dignidad, elogió hoy al Comité de Servicios Humanos y de Salud del Senado de Nevada, por avanzar un proyecto de ley que permitiría a adultos con enfermedades terminales, poner fin a la…
(Carson City, NV – Feb. 25, 2019) Compassion & Choices and the Death with Dignity National Center today praised the Nevada Senate Health & Human Services Committee for moving forward a bill that would allow terminally ill Nevada adults to end their lives peacefully. Sponsored by Senator David Parks (D-Las Vegas) and 16 other legislators,…
Un medida para ampliar opciones de cuidados de fin de vida, se ha vuelto a presentar en la Legislatura de Nevada. Patrocinada por el Senador David Parks (D-Las Vegas) y otros 16 legisladores, la SB 165 permitiría a los adultos con enfermedades terminales, en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales y con seis meses de…
A bill to expand end-of-life care options has been reintroduced in the Nevada Legislature. Sponsored by Senator David Parks (D-Las Vegas) and 16 other legislators, SB 165 would allow mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months to live the option to request and receive a prescription for medication which they could take to die peacefully….
Because, frustratingly, it isn’t always the case, seeing the will of the people reflected in legislative action feels encouraging, regardless of the near-term outcome. And every success helps move the movement forward. Aid-in-dying bills in both Nevada and Maine – states which boast 72 and 70 percent support among residents for the option respectively –…
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advanced medical aid-in-dying legislation (SB 261) in a Work Session today by a vote of 3 to 2. The bill, introduced by Sen. David Parks (D-Las Vegas) and co-sponsored by Sen. Ben Kieckhefer (R-Reno), will now proceed to the Senate floor. It received a work session after a…
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