People who want to take advantage of Victoria's assisted dying laws, if they are passed, will have to live in the state for "a period of time" before they become eligible.
The time limit is one of the safeguards Premier Daniel Andrews says will help ease the minds of MPs deciding whether to vote for the bill.
"This will be for Victorian residents, for residents that pass the test of being here for a period of time," Mr Andrews told reporters on Thursday.
"There's also some requirements about being an Australian citizen and or a permanent resident."
Mr Andrews said a time limit was just one of the provisions that would have to be made before MPs could support the proposed laws, which will be drafted and then introduced into parliament for a vote in 2017.
Voluntary Euthanasia Party convenor Kerry Bromson said people would still consider moving states if their suffering was too much.
"I understand why the Victorian government would say that, because they don't want to be a destination," Ms Bromson told AAP on Friday.
"But in the next breath you look at what happened in the Northern Territory and two people did travel."
The NT legalised euthanasia in 1995 and it came into effect in 1996.
But by 1997 the law was nullified when the federal government amended the territory's self government act.
If Victoria passes laws the federal government has no power to overturn them.
Ms Bromson said evidence from overseas showed only one or two per cent of terminally ill people chose to use assisted dying.
"If you have a choice and you know that choice is there, it actually makes you live longer," she said.
But the Australian Medical Association says doctors want to preserve life, not end it, while Right To Life Australia said safeguards would not protect vulnerable people.
A 2008 attempt to legalise assisted dying in Victoria failed in the upper house because MPs who supported it in principle said the laws needed more safeguards.
The proposed Victorian model is based on one used in Oregon in the US, which a cross-party parliamentary committee found was the best option.
The model would allow only capable-minded adults at the end stages of a terminal condition to access assistance.
The bill will likely go to a vote in the second half of 2017 but would not take effect until 2019.
