Act No. 381
Public Acts of 2010
Approved by the Governor
December 22, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 22, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 22, 2010
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Senators Olshove, Cherry, Jacobs, Nofs, Basham, Prusi, Hunter, Jansen, Gleason, Whitmer, Anderson, Brater, Birkholz, Barcia and Allen
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1102
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 sections 20102, 20104, and 21313 (MCL 333.20102, 333.20104, and 333.21313), section 20102 as amended by 1990 PA 179.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 20102. (1) “Advisory commission” means the health facilities and agencies advisory commission created in section 20121.
(2) “Aircraft transport operation” means that term as defined in section 20902.
(3) “Ambulance operation” means that term as defined in section 20902.
(4) “Attending physician” means the physician selected by, or assigned to, the patient and who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.
(5) “Authorized representative” means the individual designated in writing by the board of directors of the corporation or by the owner or person with legal authority to act on behalf of the company or organization on licensing matters. The authorized representative who is not an owner or licensee shall not sign the original license application or amendments to the application.
Sec. 20104. (1) “Certification” means the issuance of a document by the department to a health facility or agency attesting to the fact that the facility or agency meets both of the following:
(a) It complies with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and standards.
(b) It is eligible to participate as a provider of care and services in a specific federal or state health program.
(2) “Clinical laboratory” means a facility patronized by, or at the direction of, a physician, health officer, or other person authorized by law to obtain information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease or the assessment of a medical condition by the microbiological, serological, histological, hematological, immunohematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or biochemical examination of materials derived from the human body, except as provided in section 20507.
(3) “Consumer” means a person who is not a provider of health care as defined in section 1531(3) of title 15 of the public health service act, 42 USC 300n.
(4) “County medical care facility” means a nursing care facility, other than a hospital long-term care unit, which provides organized nursing care and medical treatment to 7 or more unrelated individuals who are suffering or recovering from illness, injury, or infirmity and which is owned by a county or counties.
(5) “Direct access” means access to a patient or resident or to a patient’s or resident’s property, financial information, medical records, treatment information, or any other identifying information.
(6) “Freestanding surgical outpatient facility” means a facility, other than the office of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or other private practice office, offering a surgical procedure and related care that in the opinion of the attending physician can be safely performed without requiring overnight inpatient hospital care. It does not include a surgical outpatient facility owned by and operated as part of a hospital.
(7) “Good moral character” means that term as defined in section 1 of 1974 PA 381, MCL 338.41.
Sec. 21313. (1) The owner, operator, and governing body of a home for the aged are responsible for all phases of the operation of the home and shall assure that the home maintains an organized program to provide room and board, protection, supervision, assistance, and supervised personal care for its residents.
(2) The owner, operator, and governing body shall assure the availability of emergency medical care required by a resident.
(3) The owner, operator, or member of the governing body of a home for the aged and the authorized representative shall be of good moral character.
(4) The department shall not issue a license to or renew the license of an owner, operator, or member of the governing body, who has regular direct access to residents or who has on-site facility operational responsibilities, or an applicant, if an individual or the authorized representative, if any of those individuals have been convicted of 1 or more of the following:
(a) A felony under this act or under chapter XXA of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.145m to 750.145r.
(b) A misdemeanor under this act or under chapter XXA of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.145m to 750.145r, within the 10 years immediately preceding the application.
(c) A misdemeanor involving abuse, neglect, assault, battery, or criminal sexual conduct or involving fraud or theft against a vulnerable adult as that term is defined in section 145m of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.145m, or a state or federal crime that is substantially similar to a misdemeanor described in this subdivision within the 10 years immediately preceding the application.
(5) The applicant for a license for a home for the aged, if an individual, shall give written consent at the time of license application for the department of state police to conduct a criminal history check and criminal records check. The authorized representative shall give written consent at the time of appointment for the department of state police to conduct a criminal history check and criminal records check.
(6) An owner, operator, or member of the governing body who has regular direct access to residents or who has on-site facility operational responsibilities for a home for the aged shall give written consent at the time of license application for the department of state police to conduct a criminal history check and criminal records check.
(7) Not later than 1 year after the effective date of the 2010 amendatory act that added this subsection, all owners, operators, and members of the governing body of homes for the aged who have regular direct access to residents or who have on-site facility operational responsibilities and all authorized representatives shall comply with the requirements of this section.
(8) The department of human services shall request a criminal history check and criminal records check in the manner prescribed by the department of state police. The department of state police shall conduct the criminal history check and provide a report of the results to the licensing or regulatory bureau of the department of human services. The report shall contain any criminal history information on the person maintained by the department of state police and the results of the criminal records check from the federal bureau of investigation. The department of state police may charge the person on whom the criminal history check and criminal records check are performed under this section a fee for the checks required under this section that does not exceed the actual cost and reasonable cost of conducting the checks.
(9) The department of state police shall store and maintain all fingerprints submitted under this act in an automated fingerprint identification system database that provides for an automatic notification at the time a subsequent criminal arrest fingerprint card submitted into the system matches a set of fingerprints previously submitted in accordance with this act. At the time of that notification, the department of state police shall immediately notify the department of human services. The department of human services shall take the appropriate action upon notification by the department of state police under this subsection.
(10) An applicant, owner, operator, member of a governing body, or authorized representative of a home for the aged shall not be present in a home for the aged if he or she has been convicted of either of the following:
(a) Vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation.
(b) A listed offense as defined in section 2 of the sex offenders registration act, 1994 PA 295, MCL 28.722.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 1101 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
Compiler's note: Senate Bill No. 1101, referred to in enacting section 1, was filed with the Secretary of State December 22, 2010, and became 2010 PA 381, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 2010.