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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1168

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 431M-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of ″serious mental illness″ to read as follows:

""Serious mental illness″ means a disorder which is of sufficient severity to result in substantial interference with the activities of daily living, consisting of one of the following: schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, [and] delusional disorder, major depression, bipolar [mood disorder,] types I and II, obsessive compulsive disorder, and dissociative disorder as defined in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association[, which is of sufficient severity to result in substantial interference with the activities of daily living].″

SECTION 2. Act 121, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, as amended by Act 243, section 8(2), Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, is amended by amending section 6 to read as follows:

″SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999; provided that insurance, health, or service plan contracts subject to the terms of this Act and issued or renewed after December 31, 1999, shall be amended to be consistent with this Act[; and provided that this Act shall be repealed on June 30, 2003].″

SECTION 3. Act 243, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, is amended by amending section 11 to read as follows:

″SECTION 11. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001; provided that[:

(1) Sections] sections 6, 7, and 8 shall take effect upon approval[; and

(2) Sections 6 and 7 shall be repealed on June 30, 2003; and sections 431:2-216 and 431M-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are reenacted in the form in which they read on the day before approval of this Act].″

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST