Connecticut § 14-46d - Confidential use of reports or records. Testimony re reports or records.

§ 14-46d. Confidential use of reports or records. Testimony re reports or records.

Sec. 14-46d. Confidential use of reports or records. Testimony re reports or records. Any reports or records received or issued by the department, commissioner, board or any of its members or the staff of the driver training program for persons with disabilities established pursuant to section 14-11b for the purpose of determining whether an individual meets the health standards of motor vehicle operator licensure, shall be for the confidential use of the commissioner, driver training program staff and the board and, except as may be required by state or federal law, shall not be made available to any person, or to any federal, state or local governmental agency and shall not be used as evidence at any trial. Such reports or records, however, may be made available to the individual who is the subject of such reports or records or to his authorized representative and may be used at proceedings conducted under chapter 54 or this chapter. Any person conducting an examination or furnishing any report or record pursuant to sections 14-46a to 14-46g, inclusive, may be compelled to testify on such reports or records at any such proceedings. A member of the board may not be compelled to testify in any other proceeding as to any facts concerning the medical condition of any person known by such member as a result of a review of such reports or records relative to such person except upon order of the court if the interests of justice so require.

(P.A. 81-461, S. 8; P.A. 97-236, S. 25, 27; P.A. 06-130, S. 8; P.A. 12-81, S. 34.)

History: P.A. 97-236 added new language providing board member may not be compelled to testify in any other proceeding as to facts concerning medical condition of any person known by such member as a result of a review of reports or records re such person, except upon order of the court, effective June 24, 1997; P.A. 06-130 added reference to Sec. 10-298, effective June 2, 2006; P.A. 12-81 deleted reference to reports or records received or issued “pursuant to sections 14-46a to 14-46g, inclusive, or section 10-298”, included reports or records received or issued by “the staff of the driver training program for persons with disabilities established pursuant to section 14-11b” and permitted confidential use of reports or records by “driver training program staff”, effective June 6, 2012.

Cited. 225 C. 499.

Cited. 33 CA 727; 41 CA 866.