Bill Text: MI HB5165 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Mental health: community mental health; adult inpatient psychiatric services; modify ability to pay provision. Amends sec. 818 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1818).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-02 - Assigned Pa 91'22 With Immediate Effect [HB5165 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5165-Chaptered.html
Act No. 91
Public Acts of 2022
Approved by the Governor
June 6, 2022
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 6, 2022
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2022
state of michigan
101st Legislature
Regular session of 2022
Introduced by Rep. Whiteford
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5165
AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled “An act to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to mental health; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials and certain private agencies and individuals; to regulate certain agencies and facilities providing mental health or substance use disorder services; to provide for certain charges and fees; to establish civil admission procedures for individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, or developmental disability; to establish guardianship procedures for individuals with developmental disability; to establish procedures regarding individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, or developmental disability who are in the criminal justice system; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 818 (MCL 330.1818), as amended by 1995 PA 290.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 818. (1) The department and community mental health services programs shall determine an adult responsible party’s ability to pay for adult inpatient psychiatric services of less than 61 days, all nonresidential services, and all services to minors, in accordance with the requirements of the federal sliding fee discount program under 42 USC 254g and related guidance. Eligibility for the sliding fee discount program must be based solely on family size and income in accordance with the most current federal poverty guidelines published annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under its authority to revise the poverty line under 42 USC 9902.
(2) The amendatory act that added this sentence is effective immediately. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence, any administrative rules promulgated under this section before that date are unenforceable. The department shall rescind any administrative rule promulgated under this section before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence. The department may promulgate new administrative rules or establish policy, contract requirements, or guidance to carry out the provisions of this section.
This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
