# California End of Life Option Act (2015)

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## TL;DR

California's End of Life Option Act allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease who meets the Act's conditions to request aid-in-dying drugs from their attending physician.

## Summary

United States, California, state statute. The California Department of Public Health states that the End of Life Option Act allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease, who meets certain qualifications, to request aid-in-dying drugs from their attending physician, and requires physicians to submit specified forms and information to the Department, which collects the data and publishes annual reports. The Department's page cites the enacting bill as AB 15 (Eggman), Chapter 1, Statutes of 2015. The statutory text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov returned an error to a script on 4 November 2026, so the eligibility conditions are not restated here.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: End of Life Option Act; EOLA; AB 15 (2015)
- Tags: law; us

## Sources

- California Department of Public Health: End of Life Option Act: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/End-of-Life-Option-Act-.aspx

## Connected records

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- technologies: [Hospice and end-of-life care](https://onco.cc/technologies/hospice-end-of-life/)

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