Bill Text: MI HB4012 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health facilities; other; laundering of surgical or work clothes exposed to blood or other infectious material; require facilities to comply with governing bloodborne infectious diseases and to not allow employees to launder at home. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 20195a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-27 - Printed Bill Filed 01/23/2009 [HB4012 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4012-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4012

 

January 22, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Liss and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 20195a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20195a. (1) A health facility or agency in which invasive

 

surgical procedures are performed and in which the employees are

 

routinely exposed to blood or other potentially infectious material

 

or routinely required to enter restricted operating areas shall

 

comply with the laundering requirements of R 325.70011 of the

 

Michigan administrative code. A health facility or agency described

 

in this subsection shall not allow or require an employee who

 

participates in invasive surgical procedures, has exposure to blood

 

or other potentially infectious material, or enters a restricted

 

operating area to take his or her work clothes home for laundering.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "other potentially infectious

 

material" means that term as defined in R 325.70002 of the Michigan

 

administrative code.