Bill Text: HI HB1793 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Hospitals.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-16 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Aiu, Garrett, Perruso, Takayama, Todd excused (5). [HB1793 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1793-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to hospitals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 321-14.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d) The rules shall [provide]:
(1) Provide that
the department may conduct inspections and investigations of exempt hospitals to
investigate complaints, follow up on adverse accreditation findings, or conduct
periodic validation surveys[.]; and
(2) Require that each
hospital holding a license pursuant to this section have, at all times, at
least one trained security guard or off-duty law enforcement officer working as
a security guard positioned at each entrance to the hospital, including emergency
room entrances; provided that each trained security guard or off-duty law
enforcement officer working as a security guard shall be trained, to the
satisfaction of the department, in the use of weapons, defensive tactics,
de-escalation techniques, appropriate physical restraint techniques, crisis
intervention, and trauma-informed approaches to identifying and safely
addressing situations involving patients, family members, or other persons who
pose a risk of harm to themselves or others due to mental illness or substance
abuse or who are experiencing a mental health crisis."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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Report Title:
DOH; Hospitals; Security; Licensure
Description:
Directs the Department of Health to include in its rules addressing hospital licensure a requirement that each hospital holding a license from the Department of Health have security personnel in certain locations at all times.
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
