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2023 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 31 - HEALTH (§§ 31-1-1 — 31-54-4)
Chapter 32 - GEORGIA ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR HEALTH CARE ACT (§§ 31-32-1 — 31-32-14)
Section 31-32-12 - Restriction on requiring and preparing advance directives for health care
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GA Code § 31-32-12 (2023)
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- (a) No physician, health care facility, or health care provider and no health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan shall require any person to execute an advance directive for health care as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services.
- (b) A health care facility shall only be authorized to prepare or offer to prepare an advance directive for health care if specifically requested to do so by a person desiring to execute an advance directive for health care or, if such health care facility's offer is not coercive in nature and such person consents to such offer. For purposes of this subsection, the Department of Corrections shall not be deemed to be a health care facility.
Amended by 2022 Ga. Laws 836,§ 2-15, eff. 7/1/2022.
Amended by 2017 Ga. Laws 52,§ 57, eff. 7/1/2017.
Added by 2007 Ga. Laws 48,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2007.
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