Hawaii Senate bill in Session 2026.
Status: failed. Latest action: January 27, 2025.
Medical Informed Consent; Timing; Hawaii Medical Board; Standards.
Requires the Hawaii Medical Board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent. Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure shall be obtained before the day of that treatment or procedure. Specifies that if the treatment or procedure is to occur on the same day it is scheduled, the informed consent shall be obtained at the time the decision is made to schedule that treatment or procedure.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 0000-00-00 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-01-27 | Status | failed |
| 2025-01-27 | Latest Action | The committee on HHS deferred the measure. |