Bill Text: MI SB0113 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Human services; children's services; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs". Amends sec. 1 of 1921 PA 137 (MCL 722.501). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4205'15

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-30 - Assigned Pa 0093'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0113 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0113-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 113

 

 

February 17, 2015, Introduced by Senators MARLEAU, JONES, MACGREGOR, HERTEL, O'BRIEN, WARREN, KNEZEK, BIEDA, HOOD, NOFS, ANANICH, BOOHER and ROCCA and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1921 PA 137, entitled

 

"An act authorizing counties of this state to contract with

agencies, institutions, and hospitals licensed by the department of

consumer and industry services for the aid, care, support,

maintenance, treatment, cure, or relief of children,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 722.501), as amended by 1996 PA 411.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. A county board of commissioners may enter into an

 

agreement or agreements for a period not exceeding 1 year with any

 

agency, institution, or hospital, or agencies, institutions, or

 

hospitals which that have been and are for the current year

 

licensed by the department of consumer and industry services

 

community health to receive aid, care for, support, maintain,

 

treat, cure, or relieve in or by the agency, institution, or

 

hospital, any poor, sick, distressed, abandoned, or needy ,

 

children or youth, or crippled child or children or youth with

 

special health care needs, residing within the county who may be

 

referred to such the agency, institution, or hospital by a judge of

 

the family division of circuit court for the county in accordance

 

with the provisions of this act, whether the aid, care, support,

 

maintenance, treatment, cure, or relief is furnished wholly or in

 

part by such the agency, institution, or hospital. The proper

 

charges under the contract or contracts shall be audited and paid

 

from time to time by the board of auditors, or by the county board

 

of commissioners of the county in counties not having a board of

 

auditors. However, a A county board of commissioners, before

 

entering into a contract under this section shall fix the maximum

 

amount to be expended for the purposes described in this section

 

during any 1 year, which shall be raised, levied, and collected as

 

part of the general expense of the county.