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Assisted Suicide is Not Legal
2025—AB 346—would legalize physician-assisted suicide. A hearing was held in the Assembly Select Committee on End-of-Life Care on April 2, 2025. See opposition testimony by Sharon Quick, MD, MA (Bioethics). The bill passed the Assembly but died in the Senate Committee. The governor said he would veto the bill.
Commentary in opposition by Sharon Quick, MD, MA in Las Vegas Review-Journal 4-13-2025
Letter in opposition by Kathleen Rossi Reno in Las Vegas Review-Journal 4-11-2025
2023—SB 239—would legalize physician-assisted suicide. The bill passed both chambers but was vetoed by Governor Lombardo. PCCEF signed onto a letter with other groups asking the governor to veto the bill.
2023—Quick_Testimony in Opposition to NV SB 239_2023
2021—AB351 and SB105, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide, both stall in committee.
2019—SB165, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide, passed out of Senate Health and Human Services Committee, then stalls.
2017—SB261, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide, passes the Senate and then stalls in Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services.
2015—SB336, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide, stalls in committee.
