Bill Text: MI SB0929 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health facilities; emergency medical services; ambulance availability for county or micropolitan area with population of 10,000 or less; provide for. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 20921a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - Assigned Pa 398'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0929 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0929-Chaptered.html
Act No. 398
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
December 19, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 19, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 19, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Casperson
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 929
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,” (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 20921a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 20921a. (1) A limited ambulance operation whose primary service area is in a county with a population of 10,000 or less and whose primary service area has a population density of fewer than 7 people per square mile may have an ambulance available at less than the limited level of licensure if both of the following conditions are met:
(a) The medical control authority under which the ambulance operation operates authorizes the lesser availability.
(b) The ambulance operation has department-approved local medical control authority protocols in place.
(2) A basic ambulance operation whose primary service area is in a county with a population of 10,000 or less and whose primary service area has a population density of fewer than 7 people per square mile may operate at a limited ambulance operation level of licensure when staffed with an advanced EMT if all of the following conditions are met:
(a) The basic ambulance is equipped at the greater licensure level.
(b) The medical control authority under which the ambulance operation operates authorizes the conditional increased level of licensure.
(c) The basic ambulance operation has department-approved local medical control authority protocols in place.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
