Hawaii Senate bill in Session 2026.
Status: in_committee. Latest action: January 23, 2025.
DOH; Patient's Right To Know Act; Unavailable Health Care Services for Nonmedical Reasons; Service Availability Form; Covered Entity; Penalty.
Requires the Department of Health to develop a service availability form to be completed by covered entities to convey to patients and the public certain health care services unavailable at the entity before 12/1/2026, and to publish and maintain on its website a list of covered entities and the service availability form submitted by each covered entity before 02/1/2027. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules, including a process for receiving and investigating complaints and assessing fines against covered entities in violation. Requires each covered entity to submit a completed service availability form to the Department of Health, adopt certain relevant policies by 2/1/2027, provide patients with their current service availability form as part of the informed consent process before initiating a health care service, and maintain a record of the patient's receipt of the form beginning 2/1/2027. Establishes penalties.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 0000-00-00 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-01-23 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-01-23 | Latest Action | Referred to HHS, CPN/JDC. |