Bill No.: HB0048                  Drafter:  JWL

LSO No.:  07LSO-0304              Effective Date:  7/1/2007

Enrolled Act No.:  HEA0028

Chapter No.:       61

Prime Sponsor:     Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee

Catch Title:       Wyoming Health Care Decisions Act.

Subject:  Miscellaneous amendments to the Wyoming Health Care Decisions Act.

Summary/Major Elements:  This act makes numerous amendments to the 2005 Wyoming Health Care Decisions Act.  Changes include:

· Clarification that a primary health care provider is the provider designated by the patient unless that provider is not available;

· Deletion of the requirement that an advanced health care directive be sworn to by the person signing it and that the notary attest to the competence of that person;

· Substitution of the phrase "primary health care provider" for "supervising health care provider";

· Clarification that a valid advance health care directive preempts a decision of a health care surrogate;

· Specification that a health care guardian's authority is subject to existing guardianship statutes;

· Repeal of the optional form for advance health care directives.