Bill Text: MI SB0137 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Insurance; health insurers; amount of autism coverage fund revenues to be expended for university autism programs and autism family assistance services; increase. Amends sec. 8 of 2012 PA 101 (MCL 550.1838).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-04-14 - Assigned Pa 0008'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0137 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0137-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 8

Public Acts of 2015

Approved by the Governor

April 1, 2015

Filed with the Secretary of State

April 1, 2015

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2015

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

Introduced by Senator Hildenbrand

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 137

AN ACT to amend 2012 PA 101, entitled “An act to create an autism coverage reimbursement program to encourage insurance and health coverage providers to provide autism coverage; to impose certain duties on certain state departments, agencies, and officials; to create certain funds; to authorize certain expenditures; and to provide for an appropriation,” by amending section 8 (MCL 550.1838), as added by 2014 PA 401.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8. In addition to any other use for money in the fund under section 7, for the 2014-2015 fiscal year only, up to $8,500,000.00 may be expended from the fund, upon appropriation, for university autism programs and autism family assistance services as specified in section 1902 of article IV of 2014 PA 252. It is the intent of the legislature that for the 2015-2016 fiscal year, $5,500,000.00 or the amount expended from the fund under this section if less than $5,500,000.00 will be appropriated to reimburse the fund for the expenditures authorized for the 2014-2015 fiscal year under this section.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor