Governor Lombardo Will Not Sign Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Bill

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/live-updates-nevada-legislatures-first-committee-passage-deadline-2 

Today marks the Nevada Legislature’s first committee house passage deadline, which typically marks the largest round of bill deaths in the 120-day legislative session.

By the time lawmakers wrap up today, any bills not voted out of their first committee or granted an exemption from legislative deadlines end up in the legislative graveyard....

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo [pictured above] vetoed a whopping 75 bills last session, but a handful of the same concepts are making their way through the Legislature again....

AB346, the medical-aid-in-dying bill [allowing assisted suicide and euthanasia], passed unanimously on Thursday and would allow terminally ill patients to request a self-administered medication to end their life. 

Though it breezed its way through committee, Lombardo encouraged the 2025 Legislature to disregard the bill because he would not sign it...

— Lizzie Ramirez

Opinion: AB 346 Offers False Promise

https://thisisreno.com/2025/03/physician-assisted-suicide-nevada/

Submitted by Jason Guinasso, pictured left.

Just two years after Gov. Joe Lombardo’s veto protected Nevada from misguided physician-assisted suicide legislation, the issue has returned in the form of Assembly Bill 346. The new bill, which would legalize what proponents euphemistically call “medical aid in dying,” represents not progress but regression in how we care for our most vulnerable citizens....

Despite some cosmetic changes, AB346 contains the same dangerous flaws as its predecessor. The bill’s safeguards against coercion are illusory, its premises about terminal prognosis are scientifically unsound, and its effects on our healthcare system would be corrosive.

Most troublingly, the legislation does nothing to address the perverse economic incentives that inevitably accompany physician-assisted suicide. Insurance companies stand to save millions by offering death instead of treatment, as we’ve already seen in states like California, where Stephanie Packer was denied chemotherapy but offered suicide pills for a $1.20 co-pay.

SB 165 Dead for the Session

Senator Hardy

SB 165, which had sought to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Nevada, passed out of the Senate Health Committee, but did not meet the legislative deadline for passage in the full Senate.

The bill is dead for 2019.

Margaret Dore, president of Choice is an Illusion, submitted legal briefing in opposition to the bill.

Senator Joseph Hardy and other legislators opposed the bill.

SB 165 All But Dead

SB 165, which would have legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia in Nevada, failed to make it out of its house of origin, so that it is now all but dead. According to 3 News Las Vegas:

While the bills the couldn't make it out of committee are technically off the table, they won't officially be out of question until the Legislative Session ends in June.

The next major deadline comes on May 17.

Euthanasia Bill Dead

SB 261, a bill that would have legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia, has died with the close of Nevada's legislative session. The bill passed the Senate in an 11 to 10 vote. The House Health Committee held a hearing, but took no action.

Thank you to everyone else who worked so hard to make this happen. 

To learn more about problems with the bill, click here.

Tell Legislators to Say "No" to Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia (SB 261 - First Reprint)

To view a pdf version, click these links for the index, memo and appendix.

Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA