Bill Text: MI SB0113 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Human services; children's services; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs". Amends sec. 1 of 1921 PA 137 (MCL 722.501). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4205'15
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-30 - Assigned Pa 0093'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0113 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0113-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 113
February 17, 2015, Introduced by Senators MARLEAU, JONES, MACGREGOR, HERTEL, O'BRIEN, WARREN, KNEZEK, BIEDA, HOOD, NOFS, ANANICH, BOOHER and ROCCA and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.
A bill to amend 1921 PA 137, entitled
"An act authorizing counties of this state to contract with
agencies, institutions, and hospitals licensed by the department of
consumer and industry services for the aid, care, support,
maintenance, treatment, cure, or relief of children,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 722.501), as amended by 1996 PA 411.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. A county board of commissioners may enter into an
agreement or agreements for a period not exceeding 1 year with any
agency, institution, or hospital, or agencies, institutions, or
hospitals
which that have been and are for the current year
licensed
by the department of consumer and industry services
community health to receive aid, care for, support, maintain,
treat, cure, or relieve in or by the agency, institution, or
hospital,
any poor, sick, distressed, abandoned, or
needy ,
children
or youth, or crippled child or children
or youth with
special health care needs, residing within the county who may be
referred
to such the agency, institution, or hospital by a judge of
the family division of circuit court for the county in accordance
with the provisions of this act, whether the aid, care, support,
maintenance, treatment, cure, or relief is furnished wholly or in
part
by such the agency, institution, or hospital. The proper
charges under the contract or contracts shall be audited and paid
from time to time by the board of auditors, or by the county board
of commissioners of the county in counties not having a board of
auditors.
However, a A county board of commissioners, before
entering into a contract under this section shall fix the maximum
amount to be expended for the purposes described in this section
during any 1 year, which shall be raised, levied, and collected as
part of the general expense of the county.
