Act No. 243

Public Acts of 2024

Approved by the Governor

January 21, 2025

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 21, 2025

EFFECTIVE DATE:  April 2, 2025

 

 

state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2024

Introduced by Reps. Young, Scott, Rheingans, Brenda Carter, Arbit, Tsernoglou, Brabec, Edwards, Price, Brixie, Glanville, Stone, Farhat, Steckloff, Miller, Byrnes, Wilson and Fitzgerald

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5166

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 section 9130.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 9130. (1) The department shall maintain a perinatal quality collaborative to support and improve maternal and infant health outcomes in this state by doing all of the following:

(a) Promoting quality improvement efforts.

(b) Identifying processes and mobilizing resources.

(c) Advancing equity.

(d) Implementing and expanding care for families affected by perinatal substance use disorder.

(e) Expanding and improving access to quality and respectful care and support throughout the pregnancy and postpartum period.

(2) The perinatal quality collaborative shall establish regional perinatal quality collaboratives for prosperity regions in this state. Each regional perinatal quality collaborative shall designate a lead agency within its region to invite qualified persons within the region to participate in the regional perinatal quality collaborative. Subject to appropriation, the department shall provide resources to each regional perinatal quality collaborative and require each regional perinatal quality collaborative to do all of the following:

(a) Convene qualified persons and other interested persons within the region for regular meetings to review qualitative and quantitative data within the region on maternal and infant health outcomes.

(b) Develop plans of action to improve birth outcomes for pregnant individuals, infants, and families using strategies proven to address the prosperity region’s primary perinatal challenges.

(c) Engage families and communities in developing the plans of action described in subdivision (b).

(3) As used in this section:

(a) “Prosperity region” means each of the 10 prosperity regions identified by the department on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section.

(b) “Qualified person” means a person or governmental entity that provides services and supports to individuals during the perinatal period, including, but not limited to, health facilities or agencies, health professionals, local health departments, home visitation programs, insurers, families, community-based organizations, and federally recognized tribes.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor