Bill Text: MI SB0389 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health facilities; hospitals; record of direct care registered professional nurse-to-patient ratios for each unit for each shift; require hospitals to maintain. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 21525a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-18 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [SB0389 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0389-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 389

 

 

May 18, 2017, Introduced by Senators HUNE, KNEZEK, BIEDA and CASPERSON and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 21525a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 21525a. Each hospital shall create an accurate record of

 

actual direct care registered professional nurse-to-patient ratios

 

in each unit for each shift and maintain that record for not less

 

than 3 years. The record must include the number of patients in

 

each unit and the identity and duty hours of each direct care

 

registered professional nurse assigned to each patient in each unit

 

for each shift. Each hospital shall make the record described in

 

this section available to the department, registered professional

 

nurses and their collective bargaining representatives, if any, and

 

the public under rules promulgated by the department.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.