SB6

Report Title:

Medical Care Minors; Spouse/Parent/Guardian, Notification

 

Description:

Requires notification of a minor's spouse, parent, custodian, or guardian, except in cases of emergency, when a minor seeks and consents to medical care or services.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	6
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to medical care for minors.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 577A-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§577A-3 Providing information. [Public] Except in cases of emergency, public and private hospitals, or public and private clinics or physicians licensed to practice medicine [may, at the discretion of the treating physician,] shall inform the spouse, parent, custodian, or guardian of any minor patient of the provision of medical care and services to the minor [or] and disclose any information pertaining to such care and services after [consulting with] informing the minor patient to whom such medical care and services have been provided under this chapter.

[If] Except in cases of emergency, if the minor patient is not diagnosed as being pregnant or afflicted with [venereal] a sexually transmitted disease, such information as well as the application for diagnosis [may] shall also be disclosed[, at the discretion of the treating physician] to the spouse, parent, custodian, or guardian of any minor patient after [consulting with] informing the minor patient."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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