Bill Text: MI HB4490 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health: code; individuals receiving a sexual assault medical forensic examination; allow to shower at the medical facility following the examination. Amends sec. 21527 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.21527).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-02 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/27/2023 [HB4490 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4490-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4490
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 21527 (MCL 333.21527), as amended by 2014 PA 320.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 21527. (1) If an individual alleges to a physician or other member of the attending or admitting staff of a hospital that within the preceding 120 hours the individual has been the victim of criminal sexual conduct under sections 520a to 520l chapter LXXVI of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.520a to 750.520l, 750.520o, the attending health care personnel responsible for examining or treating the individual immediately shall inform the individual of the availability of a sexual assault medical forensic examination, including the administration of a sexual assault evidence kit. If consented to by the individual, the attending health care personnel shall perform or have performed on the individual the sexual assault medical forensic examination, including the procedures required by the sexual assault evidence kit. The attending health care personnel shall also inform the individual of the provisions for payment for the sexual assault medical forensic examination under section 5a of 1976 PA 223, MCL 18.355a.
(2) If a hospital has a shower facility, an individual administered a sexual assault evidence kit under subsection (1) has a right to access a shower facility at no cost after the administration of the sexual assault evidence kit.
(3) (2) As used in this section, "sexual assault evidence kit" means a standardized set of equipment and written procedures approved by the department of state police that have been designed to be administered to an individual principally for the purpose of gathering evidence of sexual conduct, which evidence is of the type offered in court by the forensic science division of the department of state police for prosecuting a case of criminal sexual conduct under sections 520a to 520l chapter LXXVI of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.520a to 750.520l.750.520o.
