Report Title:
Medical Records, Availability
Description:
Includes an adult grandchild as a person entitled to obtain a deceased person's medical records.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2620 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO AVAILABILITY OF MEDICAL RECORDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 622-57, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (h) to read as follows:
"(h) For the purposes of this section:
"Deceased person's next of kin" means a person with the following relationship to the deceased person:
(1) The spouse or reciprocal beneficiary;
(2) An adult child;
(3) Either parent;
(4) An adult sibling;
(5) A grandparent; [and]
(6) An adult grandchild; and
[(6)] (7) A guardian at the time of death.
"Personal representative" shall have the meaning provided in section 560:1-201."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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