Bill Text: MI HB4740 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Health facilities; county medical care facilities; membership on board of trustees of a joint county medical care facility; revise qualifications and eliminate automatic membership for the members of the social welfare board. Amends sec. 2 of 1929 PA 178 (MCL 404.2).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-25 - Assigned Pa 39'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4740 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4740-Engrossed.html
HB-4740, As Passed House, October 15, 2013
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4740
A bill to amend 1929 PA 178, entitled
"An act to provide for the establishment, operation and control of
county medical care facilities by 2 or more counties of less than
1,000,000 population,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 404.2).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
2. (1) In case If
the board county boards of supervisors
commissioners
of 2 or more counties shall determine, by
separate
action
thereof of each board, that a joint county medical care
facility
shall is to be constructed, it shall be the duty of each
said
board to name the shall appoint 3 members of the social
welfare
board for their respective county to
serve as members of
the
board of trustees of said the
joint county medical care
facility.
Said Each county board of commissioners
shall appoint
trustees
shall be appointed for like identical terms. and
Until the
effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (2),
each county board of commissioners shall appoint individuals who
qualify
in the same manner as is provided for in the office of
member
of the county social welfare board.
, and they On and after
the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (2),
each county board of commissioners shall appoint individuals who
qualify as provided in subsection (4). The board of trustees of the
joint
county medical care facility shall
cooperate with the state
department
of social welfare licensing
and regulatory affairs in
the
construction and equipment of the necessary building or
buildings.facility.
(2) For a joint county medical care facility that is in
existence on the effective date of the amendatory act that added
this subsection, within 30 days after the effective date of the
amendatory act that added this subsection and subject to subsection
(4), each county board of commissioners shall appoint 1 individual
to serve as an additional member of the board of trustees of the
joint county medical care facility. A member of the board of
trustees of the joint county medical care facility who holds office
on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this
subsection may continue in office until he or she resigns or
otherwise vacates the office or until the expiration of his or her
term.
(3) For a joint county medical care facility that is in
existence on the effective date of the amendatory act that added
this subsection, all of the following apply to the county board of
commissioners responsible for filling a vacancy attributable to a
member of the board of trustees who held that office on the
effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection:
(a) The county board of commissioners shall appoint an
individual to fill a vacancy attributable to each of the first 2
members of the board of trustees to vacate the office.
(b) The county board of commissioners shall not appoint an
individual to fill a vacancy attributable to the last of the 3
members of the board of trustees to vacate the office.
(4) For an appointment under subsection (1) or (2) or for an
appointment to fill a vacancy in the board of trustees of a joint
county medical care facility, which appointment occurs after the
effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection,
the county board of commissioners responsible for appointing the
member or filling the vacancy shall appoint an individual who
qualifies based upon criteria established by the county board of
commissioners.
