Bill Text: MI SB0377 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection. Amends sec. 5119 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5119). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0374'15, SB 0375'15, SB 0376'15, SB 0378'15, SB 0379'15, SB 0380'15, SB 0381'15
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2016-04-12 - Assigned Pa 0066'16 With Immediate Effect [SB0377 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0377-Engrossed.html
SB-0377, As Passed Senate, October 14, 2015
SENATE BILL No. 377
June 4, 2015, Introduced by Senators SCHMIDT, 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 5119 (MCL 333.5119), as amended by 2000 PA 209.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 5119. (1) An individual applying for a marriage license
shall be advised through the distribution of written educational
materials by the county clerk regarding prenatal care and the
transmission
and prevention of venereal disease sexually
transmitted infection and HIV infection. The written educational
materials shall describe the availability to the applicant of tests
for
both venereal disease sexually
transmitted infection and HIV
infection. The information shall include a list of locations where
HIV counseling and testing services funded by the department are
available. The written educational materials shall be approved or
prepared by the department.
(2) A county clerk shall not issue a marriage license to an
applicant who fails to sign and file with the county clerk an
application for a marriage license that includes a statement with a
check-off box indicating that the applicant has received the
educational materials regarding the transmission and prevention of
both
venereal disease sexually
transmitted infection and HIV
infection
and has been advised of testing for both venereal disease
sexually transmitted infection and HIV infection, pursuant to
subsection (1).
(3) If either applicant for a marriage license undergoes a
test for HIV or an antibody to HIV, and if the test results
indicate that an applicant is HIV infected, the physician or a
designee of the physician, the physician's assistant, the certified
nurse
midwife, or the certified nurse practitioner, or
the local
health officer or a designee of the local health officer
administering the test immediately shall inform both applicants of
the
test results , and
shall counsel both applicants regarding the
modes of HIV transmission, the potential for HIV transmission to a
fetus, and protective measures.
(4) As used in this section:
(a) "Certified nurse midwife" means an individual licensed as
a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been issued
a specialty certification in the practice of nurse midwifery by the
board of nursing under section 17210.
(b) "Certified nurse practitioner" means an individual
licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has
been issued a specialty certification as a nurse practitioner by
the board of nursing under section 17210.
(c) "Physician" means an individual licensed as a physician
under part 170 or an osteopathic physician under part 175.
(d) "Physician's assistant" means an individual licensed as a
physician's assistant under part 170 or part 175.
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. 376.
(d) Senate Bill No. 378.
(e) Senate Bill No. 379.
(f) Senate Bill No. 380.
(g) Senate Bill No. 381.
