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Chapter 321

259 sections

§321-1 State health department's main duties and emergency powers

§321-1.1 State health department must set and update environmental goals

§321-1.3 Domestic violence and sexual assault special fund

§321-1.4 Special fund for health care assurance office

§321-1.5 State program to improve primary health care access

§321-1.6 What the health director must do for health centers

§321-1.7 Public health nursing services program

§321-1.8 Posting inspection reports for care facilities online

§321-1.9 State health checks for licensed care homes

§321-2 Where the Health Department keeps its offices

§321-2.5 Protections for volunteer medical workers

§321-2.7 Committee that certifies healthcare preceptor tax credits

§321-4 Health agents and inspectors are appointed to enforce public health laws

§321-4.3 Health department can hire disease investigators

§321-4.5 Who is allowed to inspect food places

§321-4.6 Advisory Council on Food Protection Practices

§321-4.7 Exemption for hand-pounded poi producers from food permits

§321-5 Exchanging Hawaii health workers with other states

§321-6.5 Clinical laboratory test results

§321-7 How the Health Department Spends Public Health Money

§321-9 Health department can make its own rules

§321-10 How the Health Department's rules are made and enforced

§321-10.5 Priority permits for agricultural processing facilities

§321-11 Health department rule-making authority

§321-11.1 Rules for state-funded sex education programs

§321-11.2 Rules for certifying adult foster homes

§321-11.4 Fees for paying permits and licenses online

§321-11.5 Health department can set fees for licenses and permits

§321-11.6 Filing federal applications for genetically modified organisms with the state

§321-11.8 Care homes must carry liability and auto insurance

§321-11.9 Latex glove use rules for patient care

§321-12 Health rules for beauty and barber workers

§321-12.2 Rules for tanning places and minors

§321-12.5 Fees for becoming a certified forensic examiner

§321-13 Rules for health-related jobs and licenses

§321-13.5 Rules for investigating certified nurse aide abuse and neglect

§321-14 License required for certain health occupations

§321-14.5 Hospital licensing rules and accreditation exemptions

§321-14.6 How a hospital can get a rural emergency license

§321-14.8 Home care agencies must be licensed by the health department

§321-15 License renewal every two years and when licenses can be denied

§321-15.1 Definitions for care homes and asbestos work

§321-15.2 Background checks for healthcare facility staff and volunteers

§321-15.3 Criminal history disclosure for care home applicants

§321-15.6 Licensing rules for adult residential care homes

§321-15.7 Penalty for running an unlicensed care home

§321-15.9 Licensing and rules for developmental disabilities homes

§321-16.5 Special treatment facilities

§321-16.6 Licensing rules for therapeutic living programs

§321-17 Ships must follow health rules for carrying sick people

§321-18 Penalty for breaking department rules

§321-19 County health rule enforcement powers

§321-20 Enforcement and penalties

§321-21 Rules for handling and getting rid of infectious waste

§321-22 Long term care service development fund

§321-22.5 State fund for trauma care and how hospitals get paid

§321-23 Emergency mental health response teams

§321-23.3 Volunteer medical workers' rights and protections in disasters

§321-23.6 Rules for identifying people who want comfort care only

§321-26.5 Approved green cleaning products for public schools

§321-27 Sanitation and environmental health special fund

§321-27.5 Yearly audits of the sanitation branch

§321-28 Traumatic brain injury advisory board

§321-29 Health department disease and injury investigations

§321-29.5 State lab for disease and air/water testing

§321-30 Getting your placenta back from the hospital

§321-30.1 Medical cannabis program fund and fees

§321-30.2 Special fund for federal health care penalties

§321-30.3 Default drinks for kids' meals

§321-30.4 Ban on selling cosmetics tested cruelly on animals

§321-30.5 Ban on plastic microbeads in personal care products and non-prescription drugs

§321-31 Department of Health's duties in preventive medicine

§321-31.5 Health screening orders without a doctor's order

§321-32 Who can collect blood and other samples for the health department

§321-33 Shaken baby syndrome information for new parents

§321-34 CMV public education

§321-35 Health department helps parents get student physical exams

§321-36 What key terms mean in this part of the law

§321-37 Programs to prevent child abuse and neglect

§321-38 Creating the Hawaii children's trust fund advisory committee

§321-41 State health department can run cancer education programs

§321-42 Health department help for tumor clinics

§321-43 How the state collects and uses cancer statistics

§321-45 Cancer exams in the state cancer plan

§321-46 Mammogram centers must tell patients about dense breast tissue

§321-51 Health department runs services for children with special needs

§321-52 Health department's role in helping children with special health needs

§321-53 Who manages and spends the children's special health needs fund

§321-54 Who can get services under this part

§321-61 Dental health

§321-62 State dental health duties and programs

§321-63 Health director's duties for dental health programs

§321-71 Health department rules for workplace safety

§321-72 State agreements on radiation sources

§321-81 What the Health Department must do about nutrition

§321-82 Hiring a nutritionist for rural Oahu

§321-91 Home health services program

§321-92 Health department can charge fees for its services

§321-93 How home health services are paid for and where fees go

§321-101 State hearing and vision screening program for children

§321-106 Preventing blindness in newborns at birth

§321-111 State programs to teach about sexually transmitted diseases

§321-115 Condom vending machines

§321-161 State program for alcohol and drug testing

§321-171 State health department must provide mental health services for kids

§321-171.5 Background checks for health department jobs with direct client contact

§321-172 Creating a state division for children's mental health

§321-173 Family guidance centers for kids and teens

§321-174 How schools and mental health teams work together

§321-175 State plan for children's mental health services

§321-177 Rules

§321-178 Definitions for child and adolescent mental health services

§321-191 What key terms mean in this part

§321-192 Substance abuse program

§321-192.5 Tracking publicly funded substance abuse treatment

§321-193 Department duties for substance abuse programs

§321-193.5 State agencies must work together on offender drug treatment

§321-193.7 Clean and sober homes registry

§321-194 State advisory commission duties on drug abuse

§321-195 Annual report to the legislature

§321-196 Department must make rules to enforce this part

§321-197 Hiring staff for the health department

§321-198 State funding of substance abuse agencies

§321-199 State program to help homeless people with addiction or mental illness

§321-211 What the words mean in this part of the law

§321-212 No tobacco for people under 21 in public

§321-213 Who is exempt from tobacco sale rules

§321-214 Fines and community service for underage violations

§321-221 Why the state is creating an emergency medical services system

§321-222 Definitions for Emergency Medical Services Rules

§321-223 State emergency medical services system setup

§321-224 State health department's duties for emergency medical services

§321-224.2 Fees for emergency medical services and ambulance rides

§321-224.4 Community paramedicine program

§321-225 State emergency medical services advisory committee duties and membership

§321-225.5 Creating a fall prevention coordinator position

§321-226 Emergency medical services standards

§321-227 State rules for ambulance certification and safety

§321-228 How the state decides and manages emergency medical services in each county

§321-229 Emergency medical services training programs

§321-229.2 Dementia training for first responders

§321-230 Technical help, data collection, and evaluation for emergency medical services

§321-231 How the state can accept gifts and grants for the system

§321-232 Fees for emergency medical services and ability to pay

§321-233 Health director can make rules for this part

§321-234 Emergency medical services special fund and how it is used

§321-235 State immunity for lack of air ambulance service

§321-236 Ban on latex gloves for ambulance and emergency workers

§321-237 Keeping statewide emergency medical records

§321-281 Hemophilia financial help fund

§321-282 Health department's duties for hemophilia financial help

§321-291 Newborn screening tests for certain diseases

§321-296 Newborn heart screening before discharge

§321-301 Bilingual health education aide program

§321-311 Tracking illnesses and injuries linked to the environment

§321-312 What counts as an environmentally-related illness

§321-313 Definition of health care professional

§321-314 Reporting environmental illness or injury

§321-315 Keeping medical reports private

§321-316 Protection from lawsuits for reporting health information

§321-317 Health director must make rules and set penalties

§321-321 Why this health program exists

§321-322 Health programs for mothers and children

§321-323 What key terms mean in this part

§321-324 Health department's powers to provide and improve services

§321-325 Health director's power to make agreements and set standards

§321-326 Rules for running the services program

§321-327 Hawaii home visiting program

§321-331 Prenatal health care: what the state may do

§321-341 How the state reviews child deaths to prevent more

§321-342 Definitions for child death review

§321-343 Who must share child death records and how they are protected

§321-344 When police can share investigation information

§321-345.5 Annual child death review reports to the legislature

§321-346 Protection from lawsuits for child death reviewers

§321-351 Definitions for early intervention services

§321-352 State program for infants and toddlers with special needs

§321-352.2 Early help for deaf and hard of hearing children

§321-353 Creating the Hawaii early intervention coordinating council

§321-354 Rules

§321-355 State fund for early intervention programs

§321-357 Early intervention special fund: purpose and use

§321-361 Who counts as an audiologist, deaf, or infant

§321-362 Duties of the Department of Health

§321-362.5 Newborn hearing screening and reporting

§321-363 State rules for newborn hearing screening and follow-up

§321-371 Why this tattoo artist law exists

§321-372 Definitions

§321-373 Rules for tattoo artists and their equipment

§321-373.5 Tattoo shop and temporary location permits

§321-374 Who needs a tattoo license and who is exempt

§321-375 Testing and fees for getting a tattoo artist license

§321-377 When the state can take away a tattoo license

§321-379 Enforcement and penalties for tattoo licensing violations

§321-381 License renewal fee and losing your license

§321-401 Why this food safety program exists

§321-402 Food safety education program

§321-403 When the state can study food safety after outbreaks

§321-404 How the health department tracks food safety problems

§321-405 Keeping food business secrets confidential

§321-411 What key terms mean in this part

§321-412 Creating a state program for indoor air quality

§321-413 State help with indoor air problems in public buildings

§321-421 What key terms mean in this part

§321-422 Birth defects program

§321-423 Keeping personal health information private

§321-424 Rules for the birth defects program

§321-425 Getting health and early help information

§321-431 What terms mean in this part of the law

§321-432 Case management for medically fragile children

§321-441 Definitions for CBRNE emergency response

§321-442 Emergency stockpile rules and exemptions

§321-471 Definitions for domestic violence death reviews

§321-472 How the state reviews domestic violence deaths

§321-473 Sharing death records for domestic violence reviews

§321-474 Exception

§321-475 Keeping domestic violence death review records private

§321-476 Immunity from liability

§321-481 What key terms mean in this part

§321-482 Rules for agencies that manage home and community-based care

§321-483 Rules for running a community care foster family home

§321-485 Fine for breaking this part's rules

§321-486 Investigating unlicensed care facilities

§321-486.1 What the department can do after investigating a care facility

§321-486.2 State officials can visit care homes during investigations

§321-487 Fines for sending patients to unlicensed care homes

§321-491 Why this law exists for elder and disabled services

§321-492 Who this part applies to and what key terms mean

§321-493 Who licenses day care centers for elderly and disabled adults

§321-494 Buying day care and social services for elders

§321-495 Fines for running a day care center without a license

§321-501 Mortality reviews for people with disabilities

§321-502 Definitions for adult death review

§321-503 Who must share death records for disability death reviews

§321-504 Exception

§321-505 Confidentiality of death review records

§321-506 Immunity from liability

§321-511 Definitions for sexual assault hospital care

§321-512 Emergency contraception for sexual assault victims

§321-513 Enforcement and fines

§321-531 What key terms mean in this stroke law

§321-532 State health department's role in improving stroke care

§321-533 Stroke database reporting

§321-534 Keeping your health information private

§321-541 Naming the durable medical equipment supplier license program

§321-542 Definitions for durable medical equipment rules

§321-543 Durable Medical Equipment Supplier License

§321-544 License fee for durable medical equipment suppliers

§321-546 Rules

§321-547 If one part is invalid, the rest still stands

§321-561 Limited service pregnancy centers: required notices and health information rights

§321-562 Fines and lawsuits for pregnancy center violations

§321-563 Seizure first aid information for workplaces and the public

§321-571 Skilled nursing facilities

§321-601 What the words mean in this part of the law

§321-602 Ban on PFAS in certain food packaging

§321-603 Ban on PFAS firefighting foam for training and sale

§321-604 Class B firefighting foam manufacturers: duties and fines

§321-605 Department can make rules to carry out this law