state living will and advance directives lawsHere you will find state living will and advance directives laws, the actual statutes of each state, that provide the authority for your right to execute a living will and other advance directives:
HAWAII
IOWA (enter "144A.3" in search ) Relevant sections continue through "144A.12"
KANSAS (enter "65-28,101" in search) Relevant sections are through 65-28,109
KENTUCKY ( scroll to .621 through .644)
LOUISIANA (1299.58.1 through 1299.58.10)
MASSACHUSETTS (search "health care proxy"--no statutory provision for living will)
MICHIGAN -no statutory provision for a living will, but see 700.5506(4). Search "patient advocate"-Sec. 700.5506 et seq.
MISSISSIPPI (search "living will")
MONTANA
NEBRASKA--see 20-401 to 20-416
NORTH DAKOTA scroll to Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act 23-06.4 (through 23-06.4-14)
TENNESSEE click Tennessee Code, then search 32-11-101, through 32-11-113
UTAH scroll to 75-2-1101 through 1119
VERMONTsearch "Part 10, Section 9701"
WISCONSIN scroll to Section 154 on left
State laws may, to a nonlawyer, seem to read the same. But, while similar, each living will law is particular in its definition of terms, and application to specific circumstances. It is further intended for use by its residents. Looking at Connecticut's laws, as an example, after the debacle of Terri Shiavo's plight, it is questionable, at best, had Terri Schiavo had the Connecticut living will, that it would have been enough to quell the controversy.
Notice that the Connecticut statutory form does not "speak" as the form is written, if you might be minimally aware or minimally conscious, in a state of severe brain damage.
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