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Read. Follow. Verify.Indiana bill establishes medical aid in dying procedures and prohibits life insurance denial
Last action · December 1, 2025: First reading: referred to Committee on Public HealthSponsor: Matt Pierce
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What This Bill Proposed
Indiana House Bill 1011 allows terminally ill adults who meet specific requirements to request, obtain, and medication to bring about a peaceful death, starting July 1, 2026. The legislation establishes strict provider requirements, mandatory waiting periods, criminal penalties for coercion or document tampering, and prohibits life insurance companies from denying benefits based on suicide clauses when death results from medical aid in dying.
The measure creates a legally regulated pathway for terminally ill residents to obtain life-ending medication while shielding compliant health care providers from civil, criminal, and professional liability.
- Medical aid in dying allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to request and self-administer life-ending medication. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
terminally ill individuals
Qualified terminally ill residents gain the legal option to request and self-administer medication to bring about a peaceful death.
health care providers
Attending and consulting providers must follow statutory verification, counseling, and documentation procedures, and receive immunity for good-faith compliance.
life insurance companies
Insurers are barred from using policy suicide clauses to deny death benefits when a policyholder dies via medical aid in dying.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is eligible to request medical aid in dying under this bill?
Can a patient change their mind after requesting the medication?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Dec 1, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
- Dec 1, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative Pierce M
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 85)
- Controversy90Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz65Current news / social attention level
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