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
Mar 4, 2025
House Floor
Feb 26, 2025
House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Feb 5, 2025
House Standing Committee on Health
Feb 5, 2025