Bill > SB2408

This bill, also known as "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, but prohibits smoking or vaping as methods of use and requires that health care professionals do not administer or retrieve the cannabis. The bill defines various terms like "health care facility" and "terminally ill," and outlines duties for these facilities, including prohibiting denial of admission based on medical cannabis use and ensuring secure storage, while also specifying that general acute care hospitals can only allow medical cannabis use for terminally ill patients with chronic diseases. Enforcement of this chapter is assigned to the Department of Health, though compliance is not a requirement for licensing, and the bill includes provisions for suspending compliance if federal agencies take action against facilities for allowing medical cannabis use. Additionally, it amends existing law to clarify that the authorization for medical cannabis use does not apply in certain public places, with exceptions for transportation of sealed cannabis products, and that this chapter does not require health care facilities to recommend or include medical cannabis in discharge plans.

Health and Social Services, Justice

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