Bill Text: HI SB2140 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Advance Health Care Directive; Medicaid

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [SB2140 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2140-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2140

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to HUman services.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§346-    Advance health-care directive form; medicaid.  (a)  Every recipient in the department of human services' medicaid program shall complete an advance health-care directive form.

     (b)  The form shall be provided to the recipient by the department of human services.  The completed form shall be retained in the recipient's medical file.

     (c)  An advance health-care directive that conflicts with an earlier advance health-care directive revokes the earlier directive to the extent of the conflict."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Advance Health-Care Directive; Medicaid

 

Description:

Requires a medicaid recipient to complete an advance health-care directive form.

 

 

 

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