[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 399]
[Revised as of October 1, 2000]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR2.20]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 2--CONFIDENTIALITY OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE PATIENT RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B--General Provisions
 
Sec. 2.20  Relationship to State laws.

    The statutes authorizing these regulations (42 U.S.C. 290ee-3 and 42 
U.S.C. 290dd-3) do not preempt the field of law which they cover to the 
exclusion of all State laws in that field. If a disclosure permitted 
under these regulations is prohibited under State law, neither these 
regulations nor the authorizing statutes may be construed to authorize 
any violation of that State law. However, no State law may either 
authorize or compel any disclosure prohibited by these regulations.