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Connecticut healthcare directive requirements
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About your care preferences and who you want making decisions.
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Download your healthcare directive
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses. Not everyone can witness it, so read the witness statement on the document before you choose. Give a copy to your doctor and to any health care representative and alternate health care representative you named.
What governs a Connecticut directive
Connecticut's healthcare-directive statute is at Conn. Gen. Stat. §19a-575a et seq. The official form is the Health Care Instructions. Your directive is valid the moment it's signed under your state's witness and notary rules above; it only takes effect if your physician determines you can't make or communicate decisions yourself.
Witness rules for your Connecticut directive
Conn. Gen. Stat. §19a-576(a) requires only that the document be signed and dated in the presence of two adult witnesses who also sign it; the attestation that the maker appeared to be at least eighteen, of sound mind, able to understand the nature and consequences of health care decisions, and under no improper influence, is drawn from the statutory forms at §19a-575a and §19a-577. Apart from the facility rules, Connecticut does not impose the broader relative, heir, or healthcare-employee witness disqualifications that some other states' Living Will statutes adopt. If, at the time the directive is signed, the maker resides in a facility operated or licensed by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, then under §19a-576(b) at least one witness must be an individual who is not affiliated with the facility and at least one witness must be a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or licensed clinical psychologist with specialized training in treating mental illness. If, at that time, the maker resides in a facility operated or licensed by the Department of Developmental Services, then under §19a-576(c) at least one witness must be an individual who is not affiliated with the facility and at least one witness must be a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or licensed clinical psychologist with specialized training in developmental disabilities. Under §19a-576(a) the person appointed as health care representative shall not act as a witness to its execution and shall not sign the document; as a drafting precaution, any alternate health care representative named should not sign as a witness either, since §19a-576(a) bars only the person appointed as representative.
Recent Connecticut directive law changes
Connecticut permanent RON takes effect, estate documents excluded
Public Act 23-28 authorizes remote online notarization but explicitly excludes wills, codicils, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare instructions.
PA 23-28
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