Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 113 - SUBSTANCE ABUSE TESTING BY LABORATORIES › Section 11-113-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Alcohol" means ethyl alcohol.
"Chain of custody" means procedures to account for the
				  integrity of each specimen by tracking its handling and storage from point of
				  specimen collection to final disposition of the specimen.
"Collection site" means a place where the individual
				  presents himself or herself for the purpose of providing a urine or blood
				  specimen for substance abuse testing.
"Collection site person" means a person who instructs and
				  assists individuals at a collection site and who receives and makes an initial
				  examination of the urine specimens provided by those individuals.
"Collector of blood specimens" means a person who collects a
				  blood specimen pursuant to section
				  11-113-7.
"Confirmatory test" means a controlled substance or alcohol
				  test that uses a method of analysis determined by the director of health to be
				  reliable in establishing the identity and quantity of alcohol, drugs, or
				  metabolites of drugs in the specimen.
"Cutoff level" means that concentration of a substance,
				  established by the director, in a specimen below which dictates a negative
				  result for that test.
"Department" means the department of health, State of
				  Hawaii.
"Director" or "director of health" means the director of the
				  department of health.
"Drug" means a controlled substance as defined in chapter
				  329, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"False positive" means reporting the presence of a drug or
				  its metabolite or alcohol which is not present at or above the cutoff
				  level.
"Medical review officer" means an individual, licensed by
				  the department, who has knowledge of substance abuse disorders and toxicology
				  as determined by the department, and is appointed by the third party to
				  receive, review, and interpret the results of laboratory tests requested by the
				  third party.
"Negative specimen" means a specimen which was found to have
				  negative test results for all substances for which the specimen was
				  tested.
"Negative test result" means either a finding by testing of
				  the absence of drugs, alcohol, or the metabolites of drugs, or their presence
				  below the cutoff levels, in the specimen tested, or a positive test result
				  which the medical review officer determines to be not attributable to substance
				  abuse.
"ng/ml" means nanograms per milliliter of liquid
				  specimen.
"Positive specimen" means a specimen which is found to have
				  a positive test result.
"Positive test result" means a finding by confirmatory
				  testing of the presence of drugs, alcohol, or the metabolites of drugs in the
				  specimen tested in levels at or above the cutoff levels.
"Presumptive positive test result" means a finding, by a
				  screening test, of the presence of drugs or the metabolites of drugs at or
				  above the cutoff levels.
"Specimen" means urine, blood, or any other bodily substance
				  that the department determines to be appropriate for substance abuse
				  testing.
"Screening test" means a laboratory test to eliminate
				  negative specimens from further consideration.
"State" means State of Hawaii unless otherwise
				  specified.
"Substance abuse test" means any testing procedure designed
				  to take and analyze body fluids or materials from the body for the purpose of
				  measuring the amount of drugs, alcohol, or the metabolites of drugs in the
				  specimen tested.
"Third party" means any person, agency, employer or any
				  other entity who requests substance abuse testing of another person or persons.
				  Unless otherwise specified, "third party" shall include the party's designated
				  staff.
"Verified positive test result" means a determination by the
				  medical review officer that a positive test result for drugs, the metabolites
				  of drugs, or alcohol can be attributed to substance abuse in the levels
				  specified in §
									11-113-18.