Delaware’s supported decision-making statute. DEL. CODE ANN. tit. 16, § 9403a(8) (West, Westlaw through 82 Laws 2019, ch. 4).
SDM Resource Library
Tag: law
Texas: Supported Decision-Making Law (2015)
Texas’ Supported Decision-Making statute. Enacted in 2015. S.B. 1881, 84th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2015) (codified at TEX. EST. CODE ANN. §§ 1357.001-.102 (West 2017))
For additional bills in Texas related to SDM, see the National Resource Center on Supported Decision-Making Texas page.
British Columbia: Representation Agreement Act (1996)
British Columbia 1996 Representation Agreement Act. First law in Canada establishing SDM.
Representation Agreement Act, R.S.B.C., 1996, c 405 (Can.).
Visit resource: British Columbia: Representation Agreement Act
Supported Decision-Making: Potential and Challenges for Older Persons
This law review article – 72 Syracuse L. Rev. 165 (2022) – describes how SDM can be used to help older adults retain or regain their legal decision-making rights, and it includes recommendations for how to make SDM more accessible to that population. It was drafted to inform the deliberations at the Fourth National Guardianship Conference, which resulted in key recommendations for promoting SDM.
Visit resource: Supported Decision-Making: Potential and Challenges for Older Persons
