Bill Text: MI HB5991 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health facilities; hospitals; public notice regarding county hospitals and other institutions; revise to make reference to the local government public notice act. Amends sec. 5 of 1945 PA 109 (MCL 331.205). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5560'14

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-12-03 - Printed Bill Filed 12/03/2014 [HB5991 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5991-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5991

 

December 2, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Haines and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1945 PA 109, entitled

 

"An act to protect and promote the public health and welfare and to

enable boards of supervisors of certain counties to acquire, own,

construct, establish, maintain and operate hospitals, county

general hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions for the

treatment of persons suffering from contagious and infectious

diseases and for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from

any physical ailment or impairment, and for temporary detention of

mentally ill patients, both non-indigent and indigent, to authorize

emergency treatment for emergency cases, to levy a tax therefor,

appoint hospital trustees, authorize operation of hospitals by

boards of county institutions, provide suitable means for the care

of such afflicted persons, to limit the liability of counties

maintaining such hospitals in respect to such cases, and to repeal

acts inconsistent herewith,"

 

by amending section 5 (MCL 331.205).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) Contracts for the acquisition or construction and

 

the equipment of any a hospital to be acquired, erected, operated,

 

and maintained under the provisions of this act shall be let by the

 

county board of supervisors of the county. In the case of

 

construction, such commissioners. Construction work may be let as

 

an entirety or in sections, whichever may be deemed is considered

 

most advantageous. In all cases where If the cost of construction

 

or the purchasing of equipment exceeds the sum of $500.00, bids the

 

county board of commissioners shall be advertised for do 1 of the

 

following, as applicable:

 

     (a) Through December 31, 2014, provide public notice of the

 

bids in 1 or more newspapers published or circulated within the

 

county concerned not less than 2 weeks prior to before the date

 

when bids are to be received.

 

     (b) Beginning January 1, 2015, provide tier B public notice of

 

the bids as provided in the local government public notice act not

 

less than 2 weeks before the date when the bids are to be received.

 

     (2) The county board of supervisors commissioners may adopt

 

reasonable rules and regulations concerning the manner of

 

advertising for bids and the letting of contracts. In all cases the

 

The right of the county board of commissioners to reject any and

 

all bids presented shall must be reserved. Each contract let

 

hereunder shall under this section must provide , that the work

 

shall will be done or the material purchased subject to the

 

approval of the county board of supervisors of the county

 

commissioners or by any a committee of said the county board of

 

supervisors commissioners selected for that purpose.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless House Bill No. 5560 of the 97th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.