REPORT TITLE:
Health Care/Social Workers


DESCRIPTION:
Makes it a class C felony to intimidate a health care worker or
social worker.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.


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

 1      SECTION 1.  Chapter 710, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended
 
 2 by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to
 
 3 read as follows:
 
 4      "§710-    Intimidating a health care worker or social
 
 5 worker.  (1)  A person commits the offense of intimidating a
 
 6 health care worker or social worker if the person uses force upon
 
 7 or a threat of force directed to a health care worker or the
 
 8 health care worker's immediate family, or a social worker or the
 
 9 social worker's immediate family, with intent to influence the
 
10 worker's conduct, decision, action, or abstention from action as
 
11 a health care worker or social worker.
 
12      (2)  As in this section:
 
13      "Health care worker" means any licensed provider of health
 
14 and human services under chapter 451D, and their employees,
 
15 agents, and volunteers and any employee, agent, or volunteer of
 
16 any program, institution, place, building, or agency or portion
 
17 thereof, private or public, whether organized for profit or not,
 
18 used, operated, or designed to provide medical diagnosis,
 
19 treatment, nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any
 
20 person.
 

 
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 1      "Social worker" means a person who is licensed under chapter
 
 2 467E.
 
 3      "Threat" means any threat proscribed by section 707-764(1).
 
 4      (3)  Intimidation of a health care worker or social worker
 
 5 is a class C felony."
 
 6      SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.
 
 7      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.