Health Policy

MI - Senator Jim Marleau (R)

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Committee Chair

MI - Senator David B Robertson (R)

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Majority Vice Chair

MI - Senator Judy K Emmons (R)

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Member

MI - Senator Joe Hune (R)

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Member

MI - Senator Rick Jones (R)

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Member

MI - Senator Tonya Schuitmaker (R)

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Member

MI - Senator Rebekah Warren (D)

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Minority Vice Chair

MI - Senator Bert Johnson (D)

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Member

MI - Senator Jim Ananich (D)

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Member

MI - HB5247 Health facilities; hospitals; lifeguard requirement; exempt certain hospital-owned health and wellness center pools. Amends sec. 12522 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.12522).

MI - SB1147 Health; occupations; authorization to practice as speech-language pathologist without a license; provide for under certain circumstances. Amends secs. 17603 & 17607 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17603 & 333.17607).

MI - HB5350 Children; other; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; modify. Amends secs. 3, 7 & 9 of 1988 PA 199 (MCL 722.853 et seq.).

MI - HB4736 Health; diseases; expedited partner therapy; authorize, and provide immunity from civil, criminal, and administrative liability under certain circumstances. Amends secs. 17745, 17751, 17754 & 17757 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17745 et seq.) & adds sec. 5110.

MI - SB691 Insurance; health care corporations; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow health care corporation to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional. Amends secs. 502 & 502a of 1980 PA 350 (MCL 550.1502 & 550.1502a). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0690'13

MI - SB991 Health; other; experimental therapies for certain individuals; facilitate use. Creates new act.

MI - HB5454 Vehicles; emergency vehicles; part-time licensure for advanced life support; provide for ambulance service. Amends secs. 20920 & 20921 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20920 & 333.20921).

MI - SR46 A resolution to encourage the inclusion of syringe and scalpel safety scores in health care facility accreditation audits.

MI - SB655 Occupations; health care professions; licensure program for practice of applied behavioral analysis (ABA); establish. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 16342a & pt. 176A.

MI - SB635 Health facilities; other; private examination rooms for on-site medical or dental treatment; require nursing homes and homes for the aged to provide. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding secs. 21334 & 21736.

MI - SB485 Health; death; unclaimed body program; require department of community health to establish. Amends secs. 2652, 2653, 2655, 2656, 2658 & 2659 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2652 et seq.) & adds sec. 2652a.

MI - SB569 Businesses; professional corporations; physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician's assistants to organize a professional corporation; allow. Amends secs. 282 & 284 of 1972 PA 284 (MCL 450.1282 & 450.1284). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0568'13

MI - SB568 Health; occupations; regulation and oversight of physicians of medicine, physicians of osteopathic medicine, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses; provide for and consolidate, and provide other general amendments. Amends secs. 2701, 2705, 2707, 2803, 2822, 5101, 5119, 5133, 5139, 5431, 5653, 5654, 5655, 5656, 5657, 5658, 7111, 7214, 7303a, 7333a, 9161, 9701, 10102, 10204, 10205, 10301, 16103, 16104, 16105, 16105a, 16106, 16107, 16109, 16125, 16148, 16165, 16166, 16167...

MI - SB808 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mental retardation in the nonprofit health care corporation reform act; change to developmental disability. Amends sec. 410 of 1980 PA 350 (MCL 550.1410).

MI - SB805 Mental health; other; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; modify. Amends secs. 100b, 134a, 504, 515, 932, 1001a, 1003, 1003a, 1003b, 1003c, 1004, 1005d & 1006 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1100b et seq.).

MI - SB809 Mental health; other; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; change to intellectual disability. Amends secs. 20a, 21a & 36, ch. VIII & sec. 15g, ch. XVII of 1927 PA 175 (MCL 768.20a et seq.).

MI - HB4125 Higher education; graduate schools; state-supported school of osteopathic medicine; eliminate osteopathic medicine advisory board. Repeals secs. 2, 3 & 4 of 1969 PA 162 (MCL 390.662 et seq.).

MI - SB879 Health; testing; mammography guidelines; require a breast density disclosure. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 13524.

MI - SB880 Occupations; psychologists; extend date by which certain doctoral programs must receive certain designations or accreditations. Amends sec. 18223 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.18223).

MI - SB885 Health; emergency services; medical control authority oversight of emergency medical services personnel; authorize development of enhanced protocols, require the department to convene a rural task force, and provide other general amendments. Amends secs. 20910 & 20919 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20910 & 333.20919).

MI - HB5349 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded in revised judicature act; replace with developmentally disabled. Amends sec. 876 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.876).

MI - SB627 Health facilities; hospitals; charge description master; require to post on hospital's website. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 21517.

MI - SB617 Health; disabilities; brain injury law of Michigan; create. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 52A.

MI - SB417 Health; emergency services; critical incident stress management services for emergency service providers; provide for, prohibit disclosure of confidential communications, and provide immunity from liability. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 209A.

MI - SB370 Health; other; emergency contraceptive education act; create. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 98.

MI - SB238 Education; attendance; grade requirement for certain immunization records; modify in school code. Amends sec. 1177 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1177). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0237'13, SB 0239'13

MI - SB439 Occupations; health care professions; regulation and licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; provide for. Amends secs. 17001 & 17011 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17001 & 333.17011) & adds secs. 16326, 17079, 17080 & 17081.

MI - SB371 Education; curriculum; age appropriate, medically accurate, and objective sexuality education; provide for. Amends secs. 1169, 1507 & 1507b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1169 et seq.).

MI - SB324 Occupations; insurance; licensing and regulation for navigators; provide for. Amends secs. 102, 249a, 1201, 1238 & 1242 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.102 et seq.) & adds secs. 1229, 1230, 1231, 1231a & 1231b.

MI - SB253 Mental health; other; individual eligible to access certain mental health records; expand to family members under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 748 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1748).

MI - SB239 Education; attendance; grade requirement for certain immunization records; modify in school aid act. Amends sec. 167 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1767). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0237'13, SB 0238'13

MI - SB570 Businesses; limited liability companies; physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician's assistants to organize a limited liability company; allow. Amends secs. 902 & 904 of 1993 PA 23 (MCL 450.4902 & 450.4904). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0568'13

MI - SB537 Health; occupations; tattooing, branding, or body piercing of minors; prohibit under the age of 16 and require body art facility maintain signed consent forms for at least 1 year. Amends sec. 13102 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.13102).

MI - SB446 Health facilities; hospitals; requirements applicable to hospitals providing extended care services through swing beds; clarify. Amends sec. 22210 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.22210).

MI - SB92 Health; occupations; pharmacy technicians; license and regulate. Amends secs. 16333, 17703, 17707, 17711, 17721 & 17731 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16333 et seq.) & adds secs. 17739, 17739a, 17739b & 17739c.

MI - SB373 Health; pharmaceuticals; board of pharmacy to approve pilot project for innovative applications; allow. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 17723.

MI - SB42 Health; pharmaceuticals; standards for pharmacy auditing practices; provide for. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 17771.

MI - SB180 Occupations; nurses; scope of practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists; modify. Amends sec. 17201 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17201).

MI - SB369 Health; other; victims of sexual assault; require emergency room or urgent care clinic to offer emergency contraception. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 20190.

MI - SB333 Insurance; health benefits; health care transparency database; require department of community health to establish, require health carriers to submit data, and require release of certain data and preparation of reports. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 29.

MI - SB292 Health; occupations; midwives; provide for licensing and regulation. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 16326 & pt. 171.

MI - SB237 Health; immunizations; grade requirement for certain immunization records; modify in public health code. Amends sec. 9208 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.9208). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0238'13, SB 0239'13

MI - SB228 Health facilities; hospitals; development of an acuity system and staffing plan for nurses; require. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 21525.

MI - SB136 Health; other; religious liberty and conscience protection act; enact to allow health care payers, health facilities, and health providers a right to decline to provide or pay for certain objectionable health care services. Creates new act.

MI - HB4156 Occupations; health care professions; special volunteer license; expand retired health professionals eligible to obtain and provide immunity under certain circumstances. Amends secs. 16184 & 16185 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16184 & 333.16185).

MI - SB1052 Mental health; code; medical information sharing in certain cases; require. Amends sec. 748 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1748).

MI - SCR23 A concurrent resolution to request that the United States Congress enact legislation and that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promulgate rules that would promote the opportunity for consumers to choose Direct Primary Care Services as an integral part of their health care plan.

MI - HB5649 Health; occupations; action against certain professional licenses for conduct regarding access to or treatment with an investigational drug pursuant to the new "Right to Try" act; prohibit. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding secs. 16221a & 20165a. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0991'14

MI - HB5842 Vehicles; emergency vehicles; reinstatement of or limitation on a permanently revoked license or registration; prohibit, provide part-time ambulance service licensure for advanced life support under certain circumstances, limit membership of occupation boards and task forces, and clarify licensure of pharmacy technicians and designation of pharmacist in charge. Amends secs. 16135, 16216, 16245, 16247, 16248, 16249, 17711, 17748, 17768, 20920 & 20921 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16135 et seq.); add...

MI - HB5841 Health; occupations; intentional acts by a licensee and registrant resulting in his or her financial gain and harm to patients; allow disciplinary subcommittee to impose sanction of permanent revocation. Amends sec. 16226 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16226). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5839'14, HB 5840'14, HB 5842'14

MI - HB5840 Health; occupations; grounds for disciplinary subcommittee action; include certain assault, murder, and manslaughter convictions. Amends sec. 16221 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16221). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5839'14, HB 5841'14, HB 5842'14

MI - HB5839 Health; occupations; permanent revocation; define. Amends sec. 16107 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16107). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5840'14, HB 5841'14, HB 5842'14

MI - SB744 Health facilities; hospitals; lifeguard requirement; exempt certain hospital-owned health and wellness center pools. Amends sec. 12522 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.12522).

MI - SB840 Health; abortion; additional abortion complication reporting; require. Amends sec. 2835 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2835) & adds sec. 2839.

MI - SB853 Health; occupations; refraction of human eye and issuance of prescriptions for spectacles or contact lenses; prohibit by unlicensed individuals. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 55A.

MI - HB5136 Mental health; other; uniform mental health release form; create. Amends 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1001 - 330.2106) by adding sec. 141a.

MI - HB4962 Health; education; infant death due to unsafe sleep environment; require department to develop educational materials, require certain health providers to give to parents, and require parents to sign an acknowledgment of receipt. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 58A.

MI - SB904 Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for certain compounding pharmacy violations; enact. Amends sec. 13n, ch. XVII of 1927 PA 175 (MCL 777.13n). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5363'14, SB 0704'13

MI - HB5376 Businesses; limited liability companies; definition of learned profession; clarify application to certain health professionals. Amends sec. 102 of 1993 PA 23 (MCL 450.4102). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5375'14

MI - HB5377 Businesses; business corporations; definition of learned profession; clarify application to certain health professionals. Amends sec. 109 of 1972 PA 284 (MCL 450.1109). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5375'14

MI - HB4341 Health; education; dead bodies donated to science; allow department to designate any accredited medical school in this state to accept. Amends sec. 2652 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2652).

MI - HB5389 Health facilities; nursing homes; dining assistant program; implement. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 21794.

MI - HB5375 Health facilities; nursing homes; employment of or contracting with health professionals to provide medical treatment to patients; allow regardless of business entity status of nursing home. Amends secs. 20109 & 21715 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20109 & 333.21715).

MI - SB165 Health facilities; hospitals; policy regarding life-sustaining or nonbeneficial treatment; require policy be disclosed in writing upon request and provide to parent or guardian if it applies to a minor or ward. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 204.

MI - HB4941 Occupations; nurses; issuance of temporary license to nurses licensed in Canada; remove expiration date. Amends sec. 16181 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16181).

MI - SB71 Health; home health care; in-home services agencies; require to be licensed. Amends secs. 20106, 20108, 20115 & 20142 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20106 et seq.) & adds pt. 218.

MI - SB713 Mental health; community mental health; powers of governing board of a community mental health services authority; expand. Amends sec. 226 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1226).

MI - SB704 Health; pharmaceuticals; compounding pharmacies; regulate, require all pharmacies, manufacturers, and wholesale distributors to designate a pharmacist in charge, and provide remedies and penalties. Amends secs. 16233, 16241, 17702, 17704, 17706, 17707, 17709, 17742 & 17748 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16233 et seq.) & adds secs. 17748a, 17748b, 17748c & 17748d.

MI - SB694 Insurance; health; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow insurers to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a certain licensed health professional. Amends secs. 3107b, 3405, 3475 & 3631 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.3107b et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0690'13

MI - SB693 Worker's compensation; benefits; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow employer to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional. Amends sec. 315 of 1969 PA 317 (MCL 418.315). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0690'13

MI - SB692 Insurance; prudent purchaser agreements; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow insurance companies to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional. Amends sec. 3 of 1984 PA 233 (MCL 550.53). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0690'13

MI - SB690 Occupations; physical therapists; prescription requirement; eliminate under certain circumstances. Amends secs. 17820 & 17824 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17820 & 333.17824). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0691'13, SB 0692'13, SB 0693'13, SB 0694'13

MI - HB4865 Health facilities; other; dental services provided in a mobile dental facility; allow under certain circumstances. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 216.

MI - HB4576 Occupations; insurance; licensing and regulation for navigators; provide for. Amends secs. 102, 249a, 1201, 1238 & 1242 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.102 et seq.) & adds secs. 1229, 1230, 1231, 1231a & 1231b.

MI - HB4044 Insurance; health; marketing health coverage products; prohibit a requirement that it be through an exchange. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 455.

MI - SB806 Human services; adult foster care; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; modify. Amends sec. 34b of 1979 PA 218 (MCL 400.734b).

MI - SB807 Mental health; other; reference to mental retardation in patient purchaser agreements; eliminate. Amends sec. 2 of 1984 PA 233 (MCL 550.52).

MI - SB810 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; change to developmental disability. Amends sec. 43515 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.43515).

MI - SB811 Senior citizens; other; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; modify. Amends sec. 6 of 1981 PA 180 (MCL 400.586).

MI - HB5345 Crime victims; other; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; modify. Amends sec. 520a of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.520a).

MI - HB5346 Children; child care; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; modify. Amends sec. 1 of 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111).

MI - HB5347 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; change. Amends secs. 20173a, 20173b, 21717, 21718 & 21765 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20173a et seq.).

MI - HB5348 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; change to developmental disability. Amends sec. 2264 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.2264).

MI - HB5351 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded; change to developmentally disabled. Amends sec. 2b of 1948 (1st Ex Sess) PA 31 (MCL 123.952b).

MI - HB5352 Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded; change to developmentally disabled. Amends sec. 6 of 1980 PA 300 (MCL 38.1306).

MI - HB5332 Health; substance abuse; uniform substance use disorder credentialing program; require department to establish and require certain state departments and agencies to comply with the program. Amends 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1001 - 330.2106) by adding sec. 274a.

MI - SB935 Health; occupations; licensing of genetic counselors; require. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 16340 & pt. 186.

MI - SB938 Health facilities; nursing homes; patient care policies and compliance procedures; require establishment based on nationally recognized guidelines or best-practice resources, and provide other general amendments. Amends secs. 20155 & 21734 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20155 & 333.21734).