[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3893]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME

  The following bill was read the first time:

       S. 570. A bill to amend title XVIII and XIX of the Social 
     Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act 
     to improve access to information about individuals' health 
     care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, 
     to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that 
     individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to 
     speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in 
     disseminating information about and assisting in the 
     preparation of advance directives, which include living wills 
     and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other 
     purposes.

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