Connecticut Law About Living Wills

Research Guides

Connecticut General Statutes

American Bar Association:

• Toolkit for Health Care Advance Planning

Connecticut Attorney General's Office:

• Connecticut's Living Will Laws

• Your Rights to Make Health Care Decisions (includes forms)

• Connecticut Living Will Form  

• Appointment of Health Care Representative

Selected Statutes:

• Sec. 19a-570 .  Definitions.

• Sec. 19a-575 .  Form of Document. 

• Sec. 19a-579 .  Living will or appointment of health care agent becomes operative, when.

• P.A. 10-123 . An Act Concerning Anatomical Gifts.
   
• P.A. 06-195 .   An Act Concerning Revisions to Department of Public Health Statutes