STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
Introduced by Senators Marleau, Hunter, Moolenaar, Jones, Nofs, Pappageorge, Emmons, Robertson and Hune
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 165
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 part 204.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
PART 204
MEDICAL GOOD-FAITH PROVISIONS
Sec. 20401. This part shall be known and may be cited as the “medical good-faith provisions act”.
Sec. 20403. (1) Upon the request of a patient or resident or a prospective patient or resident, a health facility or agency shall disclose in writing any policies related to a patient or resident or the services a patient or resident may receive involving life-sustaining or nonbeneficial treatment within that health facility or agency.
(2) If the patient or resident or prospective patient or resident is a minor or ward, the health facility or agency shall upon request provide in writing the policies described in subsection (1) to a parent or legal guardian of the patient or resident or prospective patient or resident.
Sec. 20405. This part does not require a health facility or agency to establish or maintain a policy described in section 20403 that is not already required by federal or state law on the effective date of this part.
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Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
