Current through Chapter 519 of the 2024 Legislative Session and Chapter 2 of the 2024 First Extraordinary Session
Section 25-48-117 - No duty to prescribe or dispense(1) A health-care provider may choose whether to participate in providing medical aid-in-dying medication to an individual in accordance with this article.(2) If a health-care provider is unable or unwilling to carry out an individual's request for medical aid-in-dying medication made in accordance with this article 48, the provider shall inform the individual of the provider's inability or unwillingness.(3) If the individual transfers the individual's care to a new health-care provider, the prior health-care provider shall transfer, upon request, a copy of the individual's relevant medical records to the new health-care provider.Amended by 2024 Ch. 406,§ 13, eff. 8/7/2024.Initiated 2016: Entire article added, Proposition 106, L. 2017, p. 2812, §1, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, December 16, 2016.2024 Ch. 406, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).