The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill again

The BBC reports that Lauren Edwards (Rochester and Strood, Lab), who came second in the ballot for Commons private Members’ bills, is to take up the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that failed in the last session of Parliament when it ran out of time in the Lords. According to the report, her intention is to introduce an identical bill to the one that was read the third time in the Commons and sent to the Lords, with the intention of invoking the procedure under the Parliament Acts, assuming that the Commons passes the bill and the Lords fails to do so.

The text of the bill as first printed by the Lords is here, and there is a Commons guide to the procedure under the Parliament Acts here. 

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