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Effective Jan 1, 2024Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 171, Sec. 1. (AB 1029) Effective January 1, 2024.
(a) “Health care decision” means a decision made by a patient or the patient’s agent, conservator, or surrogate, regarding the patient’s health care, including the following:
- (1) Selection and discharge of health care providers and institutions.
- (2) Approval or disapproval of diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, and programs of medication, including mental health conditions.
- (3) Directions to provide, withhold, or withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration and all other forms of health care, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- (b) “Health care decision” does not include a decision made by a patient’s agent, conservator, or surrogate to consent to treatments identified in Section 4652.