HRS §336-2
Returning nonresident patients to their home state
This section says the health director must send patients who are not Hawaii residents back to the state where they legally live. The director can make agreements with other states to swap such patients and can give written permission for Hawaii residents in out-of-state institutions to come back.
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The statute, as written — Nonresident public charges
The director of health shall also return all nonresident public charges admitted to or hospitalized at the hospital to the states in which they may have a legal residence. For the purpose of facilitating the return of such persons, the director may enter into reciprocal agreements with the proper boards, commissions, or officers of other states for the mutual exchange of such public charges whose legal residence is in another state, and the director may file written permission for the return of any residents of the State now confined in a public institution in another state, corresponding to any institution coming within the definition of state hospitals for the insane, or in which they were under detention, not having been lawfully discharged therefrom.
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