California lawmakers renew efforts to pass “right-to-die” bill

California lawmakers are renewing their efforts to allow terminally ill patients to legally kill themselves after an earlier defeat.

Democratic legislators are expected to announce a new plan Tuesday to make California a right-to-die state.

Legislation that stalled would allow patients to take life-ending drugs if they had permission from two doctors and less than six months to live.

Sens. Lois Wolk of Davis and Bill Monning of Carmel couldn’t get support from fellow Democrats to advance the bill out of a legislative committee earlier this year. Bills can bypass deadlines with legislative tactics.

Religious groups and Democratic lawmakers who lost parents to cancer were opposed.

The right-to-die movement has been galvanized by the highly publicized case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, who moved to Oregon to legally take her life.