RELATING TO MEDICAL INFORMED CONSENT.
Summary
Requires the Hawaii medical board to establish standards for health care providers to follow 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 be obtained prior to 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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 18, 2019
Last action Jan 22, 2019
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Jan 22, 2019
House · Referred to committee
Referred to HLT, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 3
Jan 22, 2019
House · Introduced
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
Jan 18, 2019
House · Introduced
Pending introduction.
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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