50-9-505. Statewide education and outreach program, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 9. RIGHTS OF THE TERMINALLY ILL ACT

Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry

Statewide Education And Outreach Program

50-9-505. Statewide education and outreach program. (1) The attorney general shall design, maintain, and administer a public education and outreach program to be conducted throughout the state pertaining to advance health care planning and end-of-life health care decisionmaking.

(2) The program must be designed to:

(a) increase the public's awareness of the importance of planning for end-of-life health care;

(b) improve the public's understanding of the various health situations that an individual may face if the individual is unable to express the individual's health care wishes; and

(c) explain the need for readily available legal documents that express an individual's health care wishes.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 447, L. 2005.