SB442 - Relating To Health.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular Session
Introduced byJarrett K. Keohokalole, Karl Rhoads, Les S. Ihara
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Authorizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, in addition to psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers, to provide counseling to a qualified patient. Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests from twenty days to five days. Waives the mandatory waiting period for those terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period, under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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