HI HB1542

Creates the "Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act" (Ryan's Law) allowing terminally ill patients and qualifying patients over 65 with chronic diseases to use medical cannabis in health care facilities including hospitals, hospices, skilled nursing facilities, and home health settings.

Requires health care facilities that permit medical cannabis use to prohibit smoking and vaping methods, document usage in medical records, and ensure patients provide valid medical cannabis registry cards or certifications.

Places responsibility for acquiring, administering, and storing medical cannabis on patients or their primary caregivers, with cannabis kept in locked containers; health care facility staff are prohibited from handling or administering the cannabis.

Prohibits health care facilities from denying admission to patients based on their medical cannabis use and allows facilities to suspend compliance if federal agencies initiate enforcement actions against them.

Takes effect July 1, 3000, with enforcement by the Department of Health; compliance is not required for facility licensing.