Bill Text: MI SB0820 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health facilities; certificate of need; membership on the certificate of need commission; include a reference to a nonprofit mutual disability insurer. Amends sec. 22211 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.22211).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-22 - Assigned Pa 0107'14 With Immediate Effect [SB0820 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0820-Chaptered.html
Act No. 107
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
April 7, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
April 10, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 10, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Senator Hune
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 820
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 22211 (MCL 333.22211), as amended by 2002 PA 619.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 22211. (1) The certificate of need commission is created in the department. The commission consists of 11 members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The governor shall not appoint more than 6 members from the same major political party and shall appoint 5 members from another major political party. The commission consists of the following 11 members:
(a) Two individuals representing hospitals.
(b) One individual representing physicians licensed under part 170 to engage in the practice of medicine.
(c) One individual representing physicians licensed under part 175 to engage in the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(d) One individual who is a physician licensed under part 170 or 175 representing a school of medicine or osteopathic medicine.
(e) One individual representing nursing homes.
(f) One individual representing nurses.
(g) One individual representing a company that is self-insured for health coverage.
(h) One individual representing a company that is not self-insured for health coverage.
(i) One individual representing a nonprofit health care corporation operating pursuant to the nonprofit health care corporation reform act, 1980 PA 350, MCL 550.1101 to 550.1704, or a nonprofit mutual disability insurer into which a nonprofit health care corporation has merged as provided in section 5805(1) of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.5805.
(j) One individual representing organized labor unions in this state.
(2) In making appointments, the governor shall, to the extent feasible, assure that the membership of the commission is broadly representative of the interests of all of the people of this state and of the various geographic regions.
(3) A member of the commission shall serve for a term of 3 years or until a successor is appointed. A vacancy on the commission shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.
(4) Commission members are subject to the following:
(a) 1968 PA 317, MCL 15.321 to 15.330.
(b) 1973 PA 196, MCL 15.341 to 15.348.
(c) 1978 PA 472, MCL 4.411 to 4.431.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
