Proposals for Members’ Bills
A member seeking to introduce a Member’s Bill must first lodge a draft proposal, together with a consultation document (or a statement of reasons why consultation is not considered necessary). Subsequently, the member may lodge a final proposal, in broadly similar terms to the draft, accompanied by a summary of consultation responses (or the statement of reasons). The member secures the right to introduce a Bill to give effect to the proposal if the final proposal secures, within one month, the support of at least 18 other members from at least half the political parties or groups represented in the Parliamentary Bureau, and provided no indication is given that the Scottish Government or UK Government is planning equivalent legislation.
All current proposals (together with associated documents) are available on the Scottish Parliament website at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/Bills/12419.aspx
Current Final Proposals
Names marked with an asterisk (*) are new names of support. Where a proposal has secured the necessary level of cross-party support, the supporters’ names are shown in bold.
Margo MacDonald: Proposed Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill—Proposal for a Bill to enable a competent adult with a terminal illness or condition to request assistance to end their own life, and to decriminalise certain actions taken by others to provide such assistance (lodged 18 September 2012).
The proposal was accompanied by a summary of consultation responses, which may be viewed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) or on the website page referred to above. Individual responses may also be viewed in SPICe.
Supported by: Jim Eadie, Chic Brodie, Alison Johnstone, Jamie McGrigor, Richard Lyle, Christine Grahame, Patrick Harvie, Liam McArthur, Fiona McLeod, John Park, Marco Biagi, Bill Kidd, Roderick Campbell, Kezia Dugdale, Sandra White, George Adam, Mark McDonald, Jamie Hepburn, Mary Fee*
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