Título 31. HEALTH · Capítulo 32. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR HEALTH CARE
31-32-12. Restriction on requiring and preparing advance directives for health care.
Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.
- (a)
No physician, health care facility, or health care provider and no health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan shall require any person to execute an advance directive for health care as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services.#
- (b)
A health care facility shall only be authorized to prepare or offer to prepare an advance directive for health care if specifically requested to do so by a person desiring to execute an advance directive for health care or, if such health care facility’s offer is not coercive in nature and such person consents to such offer. For purposes of this subsection, the Department of Corrections shall not be deemed to be a health care facility.#
History
Code 1981, § 31-32-12, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 133, § 2/HB 24; Ga. L. 2017, p. 164, § 57/HB 127; Ga. L. 2022, p. 611, § 2-15/HB 752.
Law reviews
For article, “HB 752: Psychiatric Advance Directive Act,” see 39 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 191 (2022).
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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
Texto leído de t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volumen V23, edición 2025, página 956; acción de fusión: bound only; SHA-256 del archivo ba5a57f85d04.