June 4, 2015, Introduced by Senators MACGREGOR, HERTEL, GREGORY, WARREN and MARLEAU and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
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 control of controlling diseases
and infections, including, but not limited to, immunization and
environmental controls.
(d)
Establish procedures for the prevention, detection,
preventing,
detecting, and treatment of treating disabilities
and
rehabilitation
of rehabilitating individuals suffering from
disabilities or disease, including nutritional problems.
(e)
Establish procedures for control of controlling rabies and
the disposition of nonhuman agents carrying disease, including
rabid animals.
(f)
Establish procedures for the reporting of 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 venereal disease.sexually
transmitted infection.
(h) Implement this part and parts 52 and 53, including, but
not
limited to, rules for the discovery, care, discovering, caring
for,
and reporting of an individual
having or suspected of having a
communicable disease or a serious communicable disease or
infection,
and to establish establishing
approved tests under
section 5123 and approved prophylaxes under section 5125.
(3)
The department shall promulgate rules to provide 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.