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HRS §327E-11

Your right to make your own health care decisions

This section says you can still make your own health care decisions if you are able to. The law assumes you have the ability to make these decisions, including creating or canceling an advance directive and choosing or removing a surrogate, unless proven otherwise.

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The statute, as written — Capacity [§327E-11] Capacity

(a) This chapter does not affect the right of an individual to make health-care decisions while having capacity to do so. (b) An individual is presumed to have capacity to make a health-care decision, to give or revoke an advance health-care directive, and to designate or disqualify a surrogate.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.