An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions, for criminal penalties, for emergency medical services, for definitions, for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for discontinuance and for Pennsylvania orders for ...

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The bill expands Pennsylvania’s health‑care statutes to cover out‑of‑hospital do‑not‑resuscitate (OOH‑DNR) orders, bracelets, necklaces, and a new Pennsylvania Orders for Life‑Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form. It defines who may issue these orders, how they must look, how they can be revoked, and adds felony penalties for forging, destroying, or hiding them. The changes aim to make patients’ end‑of‑life wishes clearer to emergency responders and to protect those wishes from abuse.

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