Bill Text: MI HB4172 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health facilities; hospitals; influenza vaccine; require hospitals to inform and provide certain patients with the vaccine. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 21530 & repeals sec. 21530 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.21530). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0722'09
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-03-25 - Assigned Pa 21'10 With Immediate Effect [HB4172 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB4172-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4172
February 5, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Robert Jones, Scripps, Bettie Scott, Donigan, Valentine, Constan, Haugh and Stanley 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 21529; and to repeal
acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 21529. (1) Beginning October 1, 2009, a hospital shall
establish a strategic plan for managing its supply of the influenza
vaccine. The plan shall be consistent with guidelines or
recommendations issued by the federal centers for disease control
and prevention or by the advisory committee on immunization
practices of the federal centers for disease control and
prevention. During the influenza season, if the hospital has the
influenza vaccine available and supply is consistent with the
hospital's strategic plan, the hospital shall inform each person 65
years of age or older who is admitted to the hospital for a period
of 24 hours or more that the influenza vaccine is available and
offer to provide the vaccine to those persons for whom the vaccine
is not contraindicative. If that person consents to be vaccinated
against influenza and a physician, nurse, pharmacist, or other
independent practicing licensed health care professional determines
that there is not a relative or absolute contraindication to giving
the vaccine, the health care professional shall administer the
vaccination to the person before he or she is discharged from the
hospital and shall document the vaccination in the patient's
medical record. The documentation of the vaccine required under
this section may be in the form of a written note included in the
patient's medical record indicating that he or she had received the
vaccine on a previous occasion, received the vaccine, or refused
the vaccine or that the vaccine was not administered because a
contraindication rendered the administration of the vaccine
inadvisable.
(2) As used in this section, "influenza season" means that
period between October 1 and March 1.
(3) This section is repealed effective April 1, 2012.
