MONTPELIER, Vt. - The Vermont House has approved a bill that would make it state the first in the country to legislate allowing physicians to provide lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.

By a 75-65 roll call vote Monday night, the House concurred with a Senate version of the bill that largely copies a law passed by Oregon voters in 1997. The bill mirrors that law for three years and then shifts to a system with less government monitoring.