Bill Text: MI HB6067 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health: research; cancer cluster investigation program; establish. Amends secs. 2617 & 2619 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2617 & 333.2619).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-11-13 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/13/2024 [HB6067 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB6067-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6067
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending sections 2617 and 2619 (MCL 333.2617 and 333.2619), section 2619 as added by 1984 PA 82.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 2617. The health information system shall must include statistics relative to:
(a) The causes, effects, extent, and nature of illness and disability of the people of this state, or a grouping of its people, which may include the incidence and prevalence of various acute and chronic illnesses and infant and maternal morbidity and mortality.
(b) The impact of illness and disability of the people of this state on the economy of this state and on other aspects of the well-being of its people or a grouping of its people.
(c) Environmental, social, and other health hazards and health knowledge and practices of the people of this state, including, but not limited to, any variation in environmental exposure that may be linked to cancer incidence and outcomes recorded under section 2619.
(d) Determinants of health and nutritional practices and status, including behavior related to health.
(e) Health resources, which may include health care institutions.
(f) The utilization of health care, which may include the utilization of ambulatory health services by specialties and types of practice of the health professionals providing the services, and services of health facilities and agencies as that term is defined in section 20106 and other health care institutions.
(g) Health care costs and financing, which may include the trends in health care prices and costs, the sources of payments for health care services, and federal, state, and local governmental expenditures for health care services.
Sec. 2619. (1) The department shall establish a registry to record cases of cancer and other specified tumorous and precancerous diseases that occur in the state, and to record information concerning these cases, including any potential relationship with environmental exposures, as the department considers necessary and appropriate in order to conduct epidemiologic surveys of cancer and cancer-related diseases in the state.
(2) Each diagnosed case of cancer and other specified tumorous and precancerous diseases shall must be reported to the department pursuant to under subsection (4), or reported to a cancer reporting registry if the cancer reporting registry meets standards established pursuant to under subsection (4) to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the reported information. A person or facility required to report a diagnosis pursuant to under subsection (4) may elect to report the diagnosis to the state through an existing cancer registry only if the registry meets minimum reporting standards established by the department.
(3) The department shall maintain comprehensive records of all reports submitted pursuant to under this section. These reports shall be are subject to the same requirements of confidentiality as provided in section 2631 for data or records concerning medical research projects.
(4) The director shall promulgate rules which that provide for all of the following:
(a) A list of tumorous and precancerous diseases other than cancer to be reported pursuant to under subsection (2).
(b) The quality and manner in which the cases and other information described in subsection (1) are reported to the department.
(c) The terms and conditions under which records disclosing the name and medical condition of a specific individual and kept pursuant to this section are released by the department.
(5) This section does not compel an individual to submit to medical or department examination or supervision.
(6) The department shall partner with other governmental entities to develop a user-friendly interface that visually demonstrates, in a map format, the geographic variation in environmental exposures that are potentially linked to cancer incidence and outcomes in this state. The department shall highlight cancer clusters on the user-friendly interface that may be useful for scientific investigation. In developing the user-friendly interface under this subsection, the department shall do all of the following:
(a) Utilize a community-engaged approach that provides opportunities for community involvement at all stages during the investigation of unusual patterns of the occurrence of cancer, including, but not limited to, reporting of suspected cancer clusters, reviewing and discussing the methodological approaches for assessing cancer clusters, and broadly sharing information with community members.
(b) Follow best practice guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during all phases of a cancer cluster assessment.
(c) Use innovative statistical methods, software tools, and analytic approaches to analyze cancer rates and detect cancer clusters.
(7) (6) The department may contract for the collection and analysis of, and research related to, the epidemiologic data required under this section.
(8) (7) Within 2 years after the effective date of this section, the The department shall begin evaluating evaluate the reports collected pursuant to under subsection (2). The Not later than June 30 each year, the department shall publish and make available to the public reports summarizing the information collected. The first summary report shall be published not later than 180 days after the end of the first 2 full calendar years after the effective date of this section. Subsequent annual summary reports shall be made on a full calendar year basis and published not later than 180 days after the end of each calendar year.
(8) Reporting pursuant to subsection (2) shall begin the next calendar year after the effective date of this section.
(9) This section shall take effect July 1, 1984.
