Bills

SB 228: RELATING TO EXCITED DELIRIUM.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Senate

Current Status:

In Progress

(2025-04-16: Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 809).)

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 rule of evidence that deems evidence that a person experienced or suffered an excited delirium inadmissible in a civil action.

Discussed in Hearing

House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs15MIN
Mar 25, 2025

House Standing Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Senate Floor17SEC
Mar 4, 2025

Senate Floor

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