Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Hawaii
- Session
- 2026
- Chamber
- upper
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Abusive Litigation, Covered Entities, Gender-Affirming Health Care Services, Health Carriers, Medical Malpractice Insurance, Protected Health Information, Protections, Reproductive Health Care Services
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-23 00:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services, including clarifying permitted disclosures of protected health information to address changes in federal regulations. Establishes protections against abusive litigation. Prohibits medical malpractice insurers and health carriers from taking certain adverse actions against health care providers solely on the basis that the health care provider provides lawful reproductive health care services or gender-affirming care services.
Sponsors
- LEE (primary), primary
- C. (primary), primary
- CHANG (primary), primary
- KEOHOKALOLE (primary), primary