Mr. Chair, I would like to support this amendment and would support it, if I could make a subamendment, which would be to delete the words after “communicating” and before “take”. My subamendment would delete “by reason of a physical or mental disability”.
In particular, the bill, as it is written today, does not provide for mentally incompetent people to make this decision. This would be already opening the door for that. I think if it would read:
if the person has difficulty communicating, take all necessary measures to provide a reliable means, without defining physical and mental.
I don't want us to define “by reason of physical or mental disability”. I just want to take that wording out of there. It doesn't change what would happen, but to me it's important that the wording in the middle not be included. That would be my subamendment.