Report Title:

Patients' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Act

Description:

Authorizes the payment of a flat fee of $400 of a physician member of an external review panel.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2890

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 432E-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(d) Members of the review panel shall be granted immunity from liability and damages relating to their duties under this section. The physician member of the review panel shall be paid a fee of $400. Both payment of the fee and selection of the review panel members shall be exempt from chapter 103D."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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