HRS §321-30
Getting your placenta back from the hospital
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗A hospital can give a placenta to the woman who gave birth or to someone she chooses, but only after tests show no infection or hazard. The health department will create a form that explains how to release the placenta safely.
The statute, as written — Human placenta
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Upon negative findings of infection or hazard after appropriate testing of the mother, the human placenta may be released by the hospital to the woman from whom it originated or to the woman's designee. The department shall establish a release form which shall stipulate appropriate measures for the safe release of human placenta.
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