End of Life Option Act: sunset.

Senator Blakespear anchors a tightly focused change by repealing the sunset on the End of Life Option Act, thereby extending its operation indefinitely beyond January 1, 2031. Under this action, the act’s existing eligibility criteria, physician participation, patient consent requirements, safeguards against coercion or undue influence, and the accompanying penalties remain in place; no additional substantive provisions are added in this measure.

The repeal modifies only Section 443.215 of the Health and Safety Code—the sunset provision—while Section 2 adds a standard no-reimbursement clause for local agencies. The bill preserves the current enforcement framework for the act’s related crimes, including coercion provisions, and notes that local costs may arise as a result of continuing criminal provisions without new state funding. No explicit effective date is stated in the text; absent other transitional provisions, the act would operate under existing law with standard legislative practice applying to timing. In policy terms, the measure maintains the current legal framework for aid-in-dying provisions and defers a sunset-driven reassessment.