Bill Text: MI SB0995 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health facilities; emergency medical services; amount of liability coverage required for certain hospital aircraft transport vehicles; modify. Amends sec. 20934 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20934).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - Assigned Pa 0269'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0995 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0995-Chaptered.html
Act No. 269
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
June 25, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 3, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 3, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Senators Walker, Casperson, Hansen, Colbeck and Booher
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 995
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 20934 (MCL 333.20934), as amended by 2000 PA 375.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 20934. (1) A person shall not operate an aircraft transport vehicle unless the vehicle is licensed by the department under this section and is operated as part of a licensed aircraft transport operation.
(2) Upon proper application and payment of a $100.00 fee, the department shall issue an aircraft transport vehicle license or annual renewal to the applicant aircraft transport operation. Receipt of the application by the department serves as attestation to the department by the aircraft transport operation that the vehicle is in compliance with the minimum standards required by the department. The inspection of an aircraft transport vehicle by the department is not required as a basis for licensure renewal, unless otherwise determined by the department.
(3) An aircraft transport operation shall submit an application and required fee to the department for each vehicle in service. Except as provided in subsection (6), each application shall include a certificate of insurance for the vehicle in the amount and coverage required by the department.
(4) An aircraft transport vehicle shall be equipped with a communications system utilizing frequencies and procedures consistent with the statewide emergency medical services communications system developed by the department.
(5) An aircraft transport vehicle shall be equipped according to the department’s minimum equipment list based upon the level of life support the vehicle and personnel are licensed to provide.
(6) When determining the amount of liability coverage required by the department under subsection (3), an aircraft transport operation that transports patients less than an average of 45 times a year over the 5-year period preceding the date coverage begins, is not required to have more than $2,000,000.00 in liability coverage on each aircraft transport vehicle in that aircraft transport operation. An aircraft transport operator described under this subsection that has a valid federal aviation regulation part 135 air carrier certificate issued by the federal aviation administration shall have its base of operation and primary business address on an island in the Great Lakes more than 20 miles from the nearest mainland airport. The aircraft transport operator’s primary business address is the address shown in the operations specifications and on the air carrier certificate.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
