Bill Text: MI SB0165 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health facilities; hospitals; policy regarding life-sustaining or nonbeneficial treatment; require policy be disclosed in writing upon request and provide to parent or guardian if it applies to a minor or ward. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 204.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-12 - Assigned Pa 0057'13 With Immediate Effect [SB0165 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0165-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 165
February 7, 2013, Introduced by Senators MARLEAU, HUNTER, MOOLENAAR, JONES, NOFS, PAPPAGEORGE, EMMONS, ROBERTSON and HUNE and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding part 204.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
PART 204
Sec. 20401. This part shall be known and may be cited as the
"medical good-faith provisions act".
Sec. 20403. As used in this part:
(a) "Medical futility" means a judgment that further medical
treatment of a patient or resident would have no useful result.
(b) "Medical futility policy" means a policy that encourages
or allows a health facility or agency employee, or other health
care professional who provides medical treatment or care to
patients or residents at a health facility or agency, to withhold
or discontinue medical treatment or care for a patient or resident
based on medical futility.
Sec. 20405. (1) A health facility or agency shall not
establish or maintain a medical futility policy unless that policy
is in writing.
(2) A health facility or agency that maintains a medical
futility policy that applies to the treatment of a patient or
resident from birth to 18 years of age shall, upon request, provide
a copy of that medical futility policy to the patient or resident,
prospective patient or resident, or parent or legal guardian of the
patient or resident or prospective patient or resident.
