Bill Text: MI HB6137 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health facilities: nursing homes; additional requirements for certain homes for the aged and nursing homes dedicated as CARE facilities and residents who test positive for coronavirus; provide for. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 5145a TIE BAR WITH: SB 1094'20
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-3)
Status: (Passed) 2020-11-05 - Assigned Pa 244'20 With Immediate Effect [HB6137 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB6137-Chaptered.html
Act No. 244
Public Acts of 2020
Approved by the Governor
November 5, 2020
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 5, 2020
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 5, 2020
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2020
Introduced by Reps. Love, Cynthia Neeley, Bolden, Cynthia Johnson, Kuppa, Coleman, Vaupel, Pohutsky, Stone, Hoitenga, Brixie, Hood, Sabo, Hertel, Sowerby, Tate, Clemente, Haadsma, Gay-Dagnogo, Yancey, Rabhi, Brenda Carter, Tyrone Carter, Peterson, Crawford, Witwer, Koleszar, Chirkun, Lasinski and Garrett
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6137
AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 5145a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 5145a. (1) By November 15, 2020, and each week thereafter, the department, in consultation with the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, shall post data on the department’s publicly accessible website that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each nursing home in this state or any information that the department determines is similar to the following:
(a) The new number of coronavirus positive cases among nursing home residents and staff for the reporting period.
(b) The new number of coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents and staff for the reporting period.
(c) The new number of nursing homes conducting new coronavirus tests for the reporting period.
(d) The new number of nursing home residents from
another nursing home that were previously diagnosed with coronavirus and
continue to require transmission-based precautions.
(e) The cumulative number of coronavirus positive cases among nursing home residents and staff, to date.
(f) The cumulative number of coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents and staff, to date.
(g) The cumulative number of nursing home residents from another nursing home who were previously diagnosed with coronavirus and continue to require transmission-based precautions.
(h) An inventory of current stock of medical supplies and personal protective equipment.
(i) The current version of any visitation policy issued by the department affecting nursing homes.
(3) As used in this section, “coronavirus” means that term as defined in section 5145.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 1094 of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act
is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
