2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 21 Labor
Chapter 5 EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
§ 516 Confidentiality

516. Confidentiality

(a) Any health care information about an individual to be tested shall be taken only by a medical review officer and shall be confidential and shall not be released to anyone except the individual tested, and may not be obtained by court order or process, except as provided in this subchapter.

(b) Employers, medical review officers, laboratories and their agents, who receive or have access to information about drug test results, shall keep all information confidential. Release of such information under any other circumstance shall be solely pursuant to a written consent form signed voluntarily by the person tested, except where such release is compelled by a court of competent jurisdiction in connection with an action brought under this subchapter. A medical review officer shall not reveal the identity of an individual being tested to any person, including the laboratory.

(c) If information about drug test results is released contrary to the provisions of this subchapter, it shall be inadmissible as evidence in any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, except in a court of competent jurisdiction in connection with an action brought under this subchapter. (Added 1987, No. 61, 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987; amended 2001, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), 5, eff. May 1, 2002.)