Bill Text: MI HB5630 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health; diseases; coronavirus reporting requirements; provide for, and require department of health and human services to pay for certain costs related to coronavirus. Amends sec. 5111 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5111) & adds sec. 5111a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/17/2020 [HB5630 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB5630-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5630
March 12, 2020, Introduced by Reps. Hammoud,
Camilleri, Brenda Carter, Manoogian, Garza, Hope, Bolden, Peterson, Tyrone
Carter, Clemente, Hood, Stone, Whitsett and Sowerby and referred to the
Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 5111 (MCL 333.5111), as amended by 2016 PA 64, and by adding section 5111a.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 5111. (1) In carrying out its authority under
this article, the department shall maintain a list of reportable diseases,
infections, and disabilities that designates and classifies communicable,
serious communicable, chronic, or noncommunicable diseases, infections, and
disabilities. The department shall review and revise the list under this
subsection at least annually.
(2) In Except as otherwise provided in section 5111a, in carrying
out its authority under this article, the department may promulgate rules to do
any of the following:
(a) Establish
requirements for reporting and other surveillance methods for measuring the
occurrence of diseases, infections, and disabilities and the potential for
epidemics. Rules promulgated under this subdivision may require a licensed
health professional or health facility to submit to the department or a local
health department, on a form provided by the department, a report of the
occurrence of a communicable disease, serious communicable disease or infection,
or disability. The rules promulgated under this subdivision may require a
report to be submitted to the department not more than 24 hours after a
licensed health professional or health facility determines that an individual
has a serious communicable disease or infection.
(b) Investigate cases,
epidemics, and unusual occurrences of diseases, infections, and situations with
a potential for causing diseases.
(c) Establish procedures
for controlling diseases and infections, including, but not limited to,
immunization and environmental controls.
(d) Establish procedures
for preventing, detecting, and treating disabilities and rehabilitating
individuals suffering from disabilities or disease, including nutritional
problems.
(e) Establish procedures
for controlling rabies and the disposition of nonhuman agents carrying disease,
including rabid animals.
(f) Establish procedures
for reporting known or suspected cases of lead poisoning or undue lead body
burden.
(g) Designate
communicable diseases or serious communicable diseases or infections for which
local health departments are required to furnish care, including, but not
limited to, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infection.
(h) Implement this part
and parts 52 and 53, including, but not limited to, rules for discovering,
caring for, and reporting an individual having or suspected of having a
communicable disease or a serious communicable disease or infection, and
establishing approved tests under section 5123 and approved prophylaxes under section
5125.
(3) The department shall
promulgate rules providing for the confidentiality of reports, records, and
data pertaining to testing, care, treatment, reporting, and research associated
with communicable diseases and serious communicable diseases or infections.
Sec. 5111a. (1) Not more than 24 hours
after a licensed health professional or health facility determines that an
individual has coronavirus, the licensed health professional or health facility
shall submit to the department a report of the occurrence of coronavirus. The
report required under this subsection must be on a form and in a manner
required by the department.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, if an individual who is diagnosed with coronavirus is not covered under a health insurance policy and the care of the individual includes isolation, or the individual is otherwise committed or temporarily detained under this article as a result of his or her diagnosis, the department shall pay for the costs of isolation, commitment, or temporary detention.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Coronavirus" means coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
(b) "Costs of isolation, commitment, or temporary detention" means any expenses associated with isolation, commitment, or temporary detention, including, but not limited to, lost wages, medical treatment, laboratory testing, drugs, or equipment.
(c) "Health insurance policy" means that term as defined in section 608 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.608.
