[§327G-1]  Purpose.  The State finds
that all competent persons have the fundamental right to control decisions
relating to their own mental health care, including the decision to accept or
refuse all types of mental health treatment.  The rights of individuals shall
be respected when they have lost the capacity to participate actively in
decisions regarding themselves or their mental health care and treatment.  The
laws of the State of Hawaii shall recognize the right of persons eighteen years
of age or older and emancipated minors to make a written advance mental health
care directive expressing their preferences and instructions regarding mental
health care and treatment, including the consent to, or refusal of, that care
and treatment, and to designate an agent or alternate agents to make mental
health care decisions on behalf of the individual, when that individual later
loses the capacity to make those decisions due to a mental illness. [L 2004, c
224, pt of §2]