Bill Text: MI SB0375 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection. Amends sec. 5111 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5111). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0374'15, SB 0376'15, SB 0377'15, SB 0378'15, SB 0379'15, SB 0380'15, SB 0381'15
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2016-04-12 - Assigned Pa 0064'16 With Immediate Effect [SB0375 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0375-Chaptered.html
Act No. 64
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
April 5, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
April 5, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 4, 2016
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Senators MacGregor, Hertel, Gregory, Warren and Marleau
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 375
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,” by amending section 5111 (MCL 333.5111), as amended by 2010 PA 119.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 5111. (1) In carrying out its authority under this article, the department shall maintain a list of reportable diseases, infections, and disabilities that designates and classifies communicable, serious communicable, chronic, or noncommunicable diseases, infections, and disabilities. The department shall review and revise the list under this subsection at least annually.
(2) In carrying out its authority under this article, the department may promulgate rules to do any of the following:
(a) Establish requirements for reporting and other surveillance methods for measuring the occurrence of diseases, infections, and disabilities and the potential for epidemics. Rules promulgated under this subdivision may require a licensed health professional or health facility to submit to the department or a local health department, on a form provided by the department, a report of the occurrence of a communicable disease, serious communicable disease or infection, or disability. The rules promulgated under this subdivision may require a report to be submitted to the department not more than 24 hours after a licensed health professional or health facility determines that an individual has a serious communicable disease or infection.
(b) Investigate cases, epidemics, and unusual occurrences of diseases, infections, and situations with a potential for causing diseases.
(c) Establish procedures for controlling diseases and infections, including, but not limited to, immunization and environmental controls.
(d) Establish procedures for preventing, detecting, and treating disabilities and rehabilitating individuals suffering from disabilities or disease, including nutritional problems.
(e) Establish procedures for controlling rabies and the disposition of nonhuman agents carrying disease, including rabid animals.
(f) Establish procedures for reporting known or suspected cases of lead poisoning or undue lead body burden.
(g) Designate communicable diseases or serious communicable diseases or infections for which local health departments are required to furnish care, including, but not limited to, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infection.
(h) Implement this part and parts 52 and 53, including, but not limited to, rules for discovering, caring for, and reporting an individual having or suspected of having a communicable disease or a serious communicable disease or infection, and establishing approved tests under section 5123 and approved prophylaxes under section 5125.
(3) The department shall promulgate rules providing for the confidentiality of reports, records, and data pertaining to testing, care, treatment, reporting, and research associated with communicable diseases and serious communicable diseases or infections.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 98th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 374.
(b) Senate Bill No. 376.
(c) Senate Bill No. 377.
(d) Senate Bill No. 378.
(e) Senate Bill No. 379.
(f) Senate Bill No. 380.
(g) Senate Bill No. 381.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
