Second Regular Session | 74th General Assembly
Colorado General AssemblyPresented to the Joint Health Committee on January 9, 2017, as part of the SMART Act Presentation.
Presented to the Joint Health Committees.
Presented to the Joint Health Committee during the SMART Act hearings.
Presented to the Joint Health Committee.
Presented to the Joint Health Committee.
Presented to the Joint Health Committee.
Presented to the Joint Health Committee.
This memorandum provides an overview of Colorado’s Medical Aid-in-Dying law, which legalized the practice of prescribing medical aid-in-dying medication to eligible terminally ill patients in Colorado.
Colorado was tied for the fifth highest suicide rate in the nation in 2014, the most recent year of nationally available data. In 2015, there were 1,093 suicides among Colorado residents, which is the highest number of suicides in the state’s history. This issue brief outlines legislative...