Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 328 > Part VI - Drug Product Selection

• Agent: means a person under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, acting in the pharmacist's presence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer debt: means any debt of a natural person incurred primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480D-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Credit: means the right to defer payment of debt or to incur debt and defer its payment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Credit card: means any card, plate, coupon book, or other single credit device issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value, from time to time, on credit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Credit card agreement: means any agreement that provides primarily for the extension of credit pursuant to the cardholder's use of a credit card. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debt: means any obligation or alleged obligation of a person to pay money arising out of any transaction, whether or not the obligation has been reduced to judgment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480D-2
• Debt collector: means any person, who is not a collection agency regulated pursuant to chapter 443B, and who in the regular course of business collects or attempts to collect consumer debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due to the collector. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480D-2
• Distressed property: means any residential real property that:

  (1) Is in foreclosure or at risk of foreclosure because payment of any loan that is secured by the residential real property is more than sixty days delinquent;

  (2) Had a lien or encumbrance charged against it because of nonpayment of any taxes, lease assessments, association fees, or maintenance fees;

  (3) Is at risk of having a lien or encumbrance charged against it because the payments of any taxes, lease assessments, association fees, or maintenance fees are more than ninety days delinquent;

  (4) Secures a loan for which a notice of default has been given;

  (5) Secures a loan that has been accelerated; or

  (6) Is the subject of any solicitation, representation, offer, agreement, promise, or contract to perform any mortgage assistance relief service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480E-2

• Drug product: means a drug as defined in § 328-1 other than a biological product as defined in this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Equivalent generic drug product: means a drug product approved by the director as substitutable by pharmacists and included in the Hawaii list of equivalent generic drug products and interchangeable biological products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hawaii list of equivalent generic drug products and interchangeable biological products: means the list of equivalent generic drug products and interchangeable biological products, which may include references to the Orange Book, the Purple Book, and other published findings and approvals of the United States Food and Drug Administration, created and published by the director pursuant to the director's authority in this part to approve drug products and biological products that pharmacists may substitute with equivalent generic drug products and interchangeable biological products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Interchangeable biological product: means a biological product approved by the director as substitutable by pharmacists and included in the Hawaii list of equivalent generic drug products and interchangeable biological products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Maximum allowable cost: means the maximum amount that a pharmacy benefit manager shall reimburse a pharmacy for the cost of a drug. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Media: means any printed publication of general distribution in the State issued once or more per year that is a party to the Mutual Publishing Plan Agreement as executed on May 31, 1962, and any subsequent amendments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480B-1
• Minimum finance charge: The minimum, or fixed, finance charge that will be imposed during a billing cycle. A minimum finance charge usually applies only when a finance charge is imposed, that is, when you carry over a balance. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Orange Book: means the United States Food and Drug Administration's "Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations" publication and its cumulative supplements, which include a list of approved prescription drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Person: means an individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, association, business, trust, or any organized group of persons, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480D-2
• Purple Book: means the United States Food and Drug Administration's "Lists of Licensed Biological Products with Reference Product Exclusivity and Biosimilarity or Interchangeability Evaluations" publication and its cumulative supplements, which include lists of licensed biological products with biosimilarity and interchangeability evaluations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Savings: means the financial benefit derived from utilizing the substituted equivalent generic drug product or interchangeable biological product from the perspective of the consumer or the ultimate payer, including third party payers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328-91