Repeals section 321-45, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requiring hospitals to offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient twenty years of age of older unless the exam is contraindicated by attending physician or was performed within the previous year.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to repeal section 321-45, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requiring hospitals to offer a uterine cytologic examination to all female in-patients twenty years of age or older, unless the exam is contraindicated by the attending physician or was performed within the previous year.

SECTION 2. Section 321-45, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["[§321-45 Cancer examination.] Every hospital licensed by the State shall offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient twenty years of age or over unless considered contraindicated by the attending physician or unless it has been performed within the previous year. Every woman for whom the test is applicable will have the right to refuse such test on the counsel of the attending physician or on her own judgment. The hospital will in all cases maintain records to show either the results of the test or that the test was not applicable or that it was refused."]

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.