Bill > SB2408

This bill, titled the "Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act" or "Ryan's Law," allows terminally ill patients and qualifying patients over sixty-five years of age with chronic diseases to use medical cannabis within specified health care facilities, such as hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, under certain conditions, and mandates that these facilities prohibit smoking or vaping as methods of use, require medical cannabis to be securely stored, and prevent healthcare professionals from administering it. The bill also clarifies that health care facilities are not required to provide or recommend medical cannabis, and that compliance with this act is not a condition for licensing, with enforcement handled by the Department of Health, and it amends existing law to permit medical cannabis use in these facilities, with a specific restriction for general acute care hospitals to only allow use by terminally ill patients with chronic diseases, and the entire act is set to take effect on July 1, 3000.

Health and Social Services, Justice

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2408&year=2026