STAND. COM. REP. NO. 699-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2232
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2232, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) With an anesthetized female patient, specific informed consent was obtained, or the health care professional or medical student has the patient's permission to be involved in the patient's care and a pelvic examination is within the specified scope of care; or
(2) With an unconscious female patient, the pelvic exam is required for diagnostic purposes.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that informed consent can be given both verbally and in writing;
(2) Removing findings that were disputed by different testifiers; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2232, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2232, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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