Bill Text: MI HB6070 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health facilities; hospitals; written policy regarding medical futility; provide for upon request. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding part 204.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-12-04 - Printed Bill Filed 11/30/2012 [HB6070 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB6070-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6070

 

November 29, 2012, Introduced by Rep. McMillin 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 part 204.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

PART 204

 

     Sec. 20401. As used in this part:

 

     (a) "Futility policy" means any written policy that encourages

 

or allows a health facility or agency employee, or other medical

 

professional who provides care to patients at a health facility or

 

agency, to withhold or discontinue treatment for a patient on the

 

grounds of medical futility.

 

     (b) "Medical futility" means a judgment that further medical

 

treatment of a patient would have no useful result.

 

     Sec. 20403. A health facility or agency that adopts or

 

implements a futility policy that applies to the treatment of a

 

child from birth to 18 years of age must disclose that futility

 

policy to the child's parent or guardian when the health facility

 

or agency identifies the need for a formal process to address

 

concerns over the proposed treatment of a child. The health

 

facility or agency must, upon request of the parent or guardian of

 

a patient or prospective patient, provide a copy of the futility

 

policy in place at the health facility or agency at the time the

 

request is made.