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