Bill Text: MI HB4740 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health facilities; county medical care facilities; membership on board of trustees of a joint county medical care facility; revise qualifications and eliminate automatic membership for the members of the social welfare board. Amends sec. 2 of 1929 PA 178 (MCL 404.2).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-25 - Assigned Pa 39'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4740 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4740-Chaptered.html
Act No. 39
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
March 20, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 20, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 20, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. McBroom and Somerville
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4740
AN ACT to amend 1929 PA 178, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment, operation and control of county medical care facilities by 2 or more counties of less than 1,000,000 population,” by amending section 2 (MCL 404.2).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2. (1) If the county boards of commissioners of 2 or more counties determine, by separate action of each board, that a joint county medical care facility is to be constructed, each board shall appoint 3 members to serve as members of the board of trustees of the joint county medical care facility. Each county board of commissioners shall appoint trustees for identical terms. Until the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (2), each county board of commissioners shall appoint individuals who qualify as provided for the office of member of the county social welfare board. On and after the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (2), each county board of commissioners shall appoint individuals who qualify as provided in subsection (4). The board of trustees of the joint county medical care facility shall cooperate with the department of licensing and regulatory affairs in the construction and equipment of the facility.
(2) For a joint county medical care facility that is in existence on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, within 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection and subject to subsection (4), each county board of commissioners shall appoint 1 individual to serve as an additional member of the board of trustees of the joint county medical care facility. A member of the board of trustees of the joint county medical care facility who holds office on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection may continue in office until he or she resigns or otherwise vacates the office or until the expiration of his or her term.
(3) For a joint county medical care facility that is in existence on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, all of the following apply to the county board of commissioners responsible for filling a vacancy attributable to a member of the board of trustees who held that office on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection:
(a) The county board of commissioners shall appoint an individual to fill a vacancy attributable to each of the first 2 members of the board of trustees to vacate the office.
(b) The county board of commissioners shall not appoint an individual to fill a vacancy attributable to the last of the 3 members of the board of trustees to vacate the office.
(4) For an appointment under subsection (1) or (2) or for an appointment to fill a vacancy in the board of trustees of a joint county medical care facility, which appointment occurs after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, the county board of commissioners responsible for appointing the member or filling the vacancy shall appoint an individual who qualifies based upon criteria established by the county board of commissioners.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
