A parliamentary committee investigating end-of-life choices is expected to call for a dramatic shake-up of Victoria's euthanasia laws.
After a 10-month inquiry, the committee is expected to recommend contentious changes that would give terminally ill people the choice to die with dignity, according to The Age.
But a spokeswoman for health minister Jill Hennessy told AAP on Sunday there were "no plans to change current laws" with respect to euthanasia.
The spokeswoman said a consultation process is under way to develop a new end-of-life care strategy and policy framework and the parliamentary committee inquiry is separate to that.
"We will introduce legislation later this year to give Victorians clearer rights to set directives about the kind of medical care they would want or that they do not want administered in the event of future conditions such as cancer, brain damage or dementia," she said.
The Age tips that the report, due to be tabled in Parliament by May 31, could include the suggestion that the state government create a regulated, assisted dying regime for people who are suffering.
But it says the committee will likely be split on its views and some MPs could lodge a separate "minority report" that rejects the notion of voluntary euthanasia.
The committee is made up of three Labor MPs (Jaclyn Symes, Cesar Melhem and Daniel Mulino); three Liberal MPs (chairman Edward O'Donohue, Margaret Fitzherbert and Inga Peulich); Sex Party MP Fiona Patten and Greens MP Nina Springle.
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