Hawaii State Legislature
2004 Legislative Session

HB2099

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Measure Title: RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.
Report Title: Emergency Medical Services
Description: Deletes terminal condition as the sole circumstance when "comfort care only-do not resuscitate" protocols may be initiated by in-the-field emergency response personnel to persons whose heart or breathing has stopped. Allows a person, a person's guardian, agent, or surrogate with legal authority to make health-care decisions on behalf of the person to allow the withholding of cardiac resuscitation and artificial breathing or to revoke CCO DNR documents.
Package: None
Companion:
Introducer(s): ARAKAKI
Current Referral:HLT, JUD

Date Status Text
1/23/2004HIntroduced
1/26/2004HPass First Reading
1/26/2004HReferred to HLT, JUD, referral sheet 3

$ = Appropriation measure
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment