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End Of Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2020
Type of vote: Bill (Amendment) Moved by: Ms Courtney | Wednesday, 3 March 2021 |
| Passed | No Division. | |
Amendment Clause 54 Page 77, at the end of the clause. Insert the following subclause: (2) A person to whom a request is made under subsection (1) must not fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the request as soon as reasonably practicable. |
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Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to clause 139 for more detailed provisions relating to how this Act will operate in relations to the Poisons Act 1971.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to clause 135 to reflect the definition of registered health practitioner now including a registered nurse.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendments to liability in clause 134 provisions to remove duplications, and to reflect a broader range of professions covered by the bill.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying that a person can still incur criminal liability if they administer or assist in administering a VAD substance in a manner contrary to the Act, as well as removing protections for participants operating in 'purported' accordance.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a contact person to return a VAD substance to an AHP, if a person decides not to self-administer and provides the VAD substance to a contact person to return.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to include an attempt to induce under 'dishonest inducement to use VAD substance'.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Changes a reference to a “a false statement” to “a statement that is false in a material particular”.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Grammatical amendment.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment requiring the Commission to refer a suspected contravention to other persons, rather than leaving it to their discretion.
Amendment - 4 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment requiring a suspected contravention to be investigated, rather than leaving it at the discretion of the Commission.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring the development of regional access standards.
Amendment to Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to move the new clause to after clause 137 instead of clause 116.
Amendment to Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment replacing reference to living outside of Hobart and Launceston, to regional areas.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
New clause requiring the Commission to develop guidelines for determination of persons with special interest.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendments to Clause 113 to stipulate the Commission's role in assisting in the access of VAD, correct a typo, and ensure that persons are only included on lists if the request to be so.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
New clause introducing confidentiality provisions.
Amendment to Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Grammatical amendment to proposed new Clause A
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment stipulating officers appointed under section 112 are subject to the direction of the Commission.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing the Commission to hand down written reasons for a decision that do not enable individuals to be identified.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendments to clarify that evidence can be in a form other than documents.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing the Commission to give directions at a hearing regarding the publication of matters relating to the proceedings.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to refer to the new guidelines proposed in new section B in relation to determining eligible applicants.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Clarifies that a VAD death is not a reportable death under the Coroners Act 1995.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring the notification of the Commission, rather than the police and administering health practitioner.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Ensures that a VAD death appropriately notified under the Act does not require notification of the police or coroner.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying self-administration provisions and clarifies a death should not taken to occur outside of the Act solely due to contravention of subsection (4) or (5).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring an administering health practitioner to take reasonable steps to determine whether a person has died, or complications have arisen, after a VAD substance has been administered.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Further amendment allowing an AHP certificate if self-administration without the AHP being in close proximity, or without AHP assistance, is not appropriate.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Further amendment allowing an AHP certificate if self-administration without the AHP being in close proximity, or without AHP assistance, is not appropriate.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing an AHP certificate if self-administration without the AHP being in close proximity, or without AHP assistance, is not appropriate.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing the request for administration method to be amended.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a person to whom a request is made for the purposes of determining decision-making capacity to comply with the request as soon as reasonably practicable.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to clarify that information requested from a person may include medical records.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to allow an administering health practitioner to request medical records for the purpose of determining decision-making capacity.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying when a VAD substance needs to be returned.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment consequential to the previous amendment to clause 59(1).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment consequential to the previous amendment to clause 59(1).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to make a CMP who becomes the PMP for the purposes of section 16 and the remainder of the VAD process, to also be PMP for the purposes of Part 16.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a person to comply with a request from a PMP in relation to a final request.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying that information can include medical records.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing a PMP to request a medical record holder to provide medical records in relation to a final request.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a person whom information is requested from by a PMP to provide the information as soon as practicable.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying that information requested by a PMP may include medical records.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing a PMP to request records from a a medical record holder.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a PMP to provide the CMP with requested reports and information as soon as practicable.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment correcting a typographical error.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a person to whom a PMP requests information to provide it as soon as practicable.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying that information requested by a PMP may include medical records (in relation to a second request).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing a PMP to request records from a medical record holder (in relation to a second request).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a PMP to determine a first request as soon as reasonably practicable after sufficient information is available.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying that information requested by a PMP may include medical records (in relation to a first request).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment allowing a PMP to request records from a medical record holder (in relation to a first request).
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a person, and the commission, to be notified if a medical practitioner refuses to accept a first request.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring the provision of contact details for the Commission regardless of conscientious objection.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment inserting a reference to a new clause introduced via amendment to section 82, in relation to who cannot be designated under section 15.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment inserting a reference to a new clause introduced via amendment to section 82, in the definition of relevant communication in section 15.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment requiring a person's GP to be consulted prior to making a VAD request determination.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment clarifying that a person is not disqualified from VAD eligibility solely because they have a disability or mental illness.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to include "disease, illness, injury, or" in a reference to a medical condition, consistent with other provisions in the bill.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment requiring a medical practitioner to have five years experience in order to be an authorised medical practitioner under the act.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to clause 9 to avoid repetition of a definition that already exists in the bill.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment to replace prognosis timeframe eligibility requirements with 12 months across the board, and to replace death within the timeframe being "expected" with "reasonably foreseeable".
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment to remove the requirement for a 6 or 12 month prognosis in order to be eligible for VAD.
Amendment - 3 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to changing discretionary powers to request information and consult a specialist to mandatory powers, in relation to an application for exemption from prognostic timeframe limitations for VAD eligibility.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment to remove provisions allowing for the decision not to take medication that is unacceptable to the person to be considered for prognostication and suffering purposes.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to include definitions of "paramedic" and "patient transport officer".
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment removing the exclusion of psychiatrist from the definition of medical practitioner.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to include a definition of "in person".
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to clarifying the definition of final permission to reflect an amended final permission.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment fixing a minor typographical error.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to replace the word "family" with the phrase “members of the person’s family” in clause 3.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Negatived)
Amendment to allow certain institutions to conscientiously object to the provision of VAD on their premises.
Amendment to Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to amendment to require proposed institutional conscientious objection to be accompanied by a requirement to provide the Commission's information.
Amendment - 2 Mar 2021 (Passed)
Amendment to clause three extending the objectives to including providing legal protections for a broader range of people and clarify that the legal protections are circumstantial.
Second Reading - 4 Dec 2020 (Passed)
Second Reading passed.