Bills

HB 36: RELATING TO EXCITED DELIRIUM.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: House

Current Status:

In Progress

(2025-12-08: Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Final Decking

Enacted

Version:

Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State.  Prohibits a local health officer or local agent of the Department of Health from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the cause of death was excited delirium.  Prohibits law enforcement officers from using the term excited delirium to describe an individual in an incident report.  Establishes a new Hawaii Rule of Evidence that deems evidence that a person experienced or suffered an excited delirium inadmissible in a civil action.

Discussed in Hearing

House Floor58SEC
Mar 4, 2025

House Floor

House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs14MIN
Feb 26, 2025

House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

House Standing Committee on Health10MIN
Feb 5, 2025

House Standing Committee on Health

House Standing Committee on Labor10MIN
Feb 5, 2025

House Standing Committee on Labor

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