Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 160 - MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS
Subchapter 9 - CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION
Section 11-160-56 - Confidential information; exceptions
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 11-160-56
Current through February, 2024
(a) All information received and records kept -by the department for purposes of administering this chapter are confidential and not subject to disclosure except to:
(1) Employees or agents of the department as
necessary to perform their official duties under this chapter;
(2) Federal, state, or local law enforcement
agencies for the purpose of verifying registration with the department pursuant
to this chapter or for official law enforcement purposes;
(3) A person or entity pursuant to an order
or subpoena from a court or agency of competent jurisdiction;
(4) A person or entity with the written
permission of the qualifying patient or, if the qualifying patient is a minor
or an adult lacking legal capacity, of the qualifying patient's parent,
guardian, or person having legal custody;
(5) A person or entity with the written
permission of the qualifying out-of-state patient or, if the qualifying
out-of-state patient is a minor, of a caregiver of a qualifying out-of-state
patient;
(6) Employees or agents of
the State's medical cannabis dispensary system;
(7) Employees or agents of the department's
contracted computer software tracking system used within the State's medical
cannabis dispensary system;
(8)
Medical cannabis dispensary system licensees as deemed necessary by the
department for purposes of:
(A) Verifying the
status of a person as a qualifying patient, primary caregiver, qualifying
out-of-state patient, or caregiver of a qualifying out-of-state patient;
and
(B) Tracking a qualifying
patient's or a qualifying out-of-state patient's allowable cannabis purchase
limits; and
(9) Other
persons or entities deemed necessary by the department to administer this
chapter or the State's medical cannabis dispensary system.
(b) Nothing in this section precludes the department from the following;
(1) Notifying
law enforcement or relevant authorities about falsified or fraudulent
information submitted to the department;
(2) Notifying state or local law enforcement
about suspected criminal violations; and
(3) Publishing non-identifying aggregated
data or statistics of program information.
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