Bill Text: MI HB6417 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health facilities: hospitals; public notice regarding county hospitals and other institutions; revise to make reference to the local government public notice act. Amends sec. 5 of 1945 PA 109 (MCL 331.205).
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/18/2020 [HB6417 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB6417-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6417
November 12, 2020, Introduced by Reps. Bolden,
Meerman, Coleman and Steven Johnson and referred to the Committee on
Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1945 PA 109, entitled
"An act to protect and promote the public health and welfare and to enable boards of supervisors of certain counties to acquire, own, construct, establish, maintain and operate hospitals, county general hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions for the treatment of persons suffering from contagious and infectious diseases and for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from any physical ailment or impairment, and for temporary detention of mentally ill patients, both non-indigent and indigent, to authorize emergency treatment for emergency cases, to levy a tax therefor, appoint hospital trustees, authorize operation of hospitals by boards of county institutions, provide suitable means for the care of such afflicted persons, to limit the liability of counties maintaining such hospitals in respect to such cases, and to repeal acts inconsistent herewith,"
by amending section 5 (MCL 331.205).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 5. (1) Contracts for the acquisition or construction and the equipment of any a hospital to be acquired, erected, operated, and maintained under the provisions of this act shall must be let by the county board of supervisors of the county. In the case of construction, such commissioners. Construction work may be let as an entirety or in sections, whichever may be deemed is considered most advantageous. In all cases where If the cost of construction or the purchasing of equipment exceeds the sum of $500.00, bids the county board of commissioners shall be advertised for do 1 of the following, as applicable:
(a) Through December 31, 2021, provide public notice of the bids in 1 or more newspapers published or circulated within the county concerned not less than 2 weeks prior to before the date when bids are to be received.
(b) Beginning January 1, 2022, post public notice of the bids as provided in the local government public notice act not less than 2 weeks before the date when the bids are to be received.
(2) The county board of supervisors commissioners may adopt reasonable rules and regulations concerning the manner of advertising for bids and the letting of contracts. In all cases the The right of the county board of commissioners to reject any and all bids presented shall must be reserved. Each contract let hereunder shall under this section must provide , that the work shall will be done or the material purchased subject to the approval of the county board of supervisors of the county commissioners or by any a committee of said the county board of supervisors commissioners selected for that purpose.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 6440 (request no. 02449'19) of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.
