Bill Text: MI SB0376 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection. Amends sec. 5117 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5117). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0374'15, SB 0375'15, SB 0377'15, SB 0378'15, SB 0379'15, SB 0380'15, SB 0381'15
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-04-12 - Assigned Pa 0065'16 With Immediate Effect [SB0376 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0376-Chaptered.html
Act No. 65
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 Knezek, Hertel, Gregory, Warren and Marleau
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 376
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 5117 (MCL 333.5117), as amended by 2010 PA 119.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 5117. (1) A local health department that knows that an individual who has a serious communicable disease or infection, including, but not limited to, tuberculosis or sexually transmitted infection, but not including HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, regardless of the individual’s domicile, is in the local health department’s jurisdiction and requires care, immediately shall furnish the necessary care in accordance with requirements established by the department under section 5111(2)(g). The local health department shall issue an order authorizing the care.
(2) The local health department promptly shall report the action taken under this section to the county department of human services of the individual’s probable place of domicile.
(3) This section does not restrict the authority of the local health department in furnishing care to the individual, pending determination by the local health department or, upon its request, by the county department of human services of the probable place of domicile of the individual.
(4) Financial liability for care rendered under this section shall be determined in accordance with part 53.
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. 375.
(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
