2015-2016 Session House Committee on Health Policy
Friday, December 30, 2016
Bill/Resolution Sponsor Subject Meetings Status
HB 4031
referred
1/15/2015
Kelly Human services; medical services; restriction on use of experimental therapies for certain individuals; provide for.
HB 4061
referred
1/27/2015
Banks Health; screening; screening for lead exposure in children 12-24 months; require.
HB 4146
referred
2/5/2015
Hooker Health; abortion; performance of an abortion after fetus has completed 19 weeks of gestation; require only in a hospital that has neonatal unit.
HB 4203
referred
2/17/2015
Callton Businesses; nonprofit corporations; reference to "crippled children" in trustee corporation law; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs".
HB 4204
referred
2/17/2015
Graves Human services; children's services; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs".
HB 4205
referred
2/17/2015
Schor Health; children; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs" and change the date on licensing pharmacy technicians.
HB 4206
referred
2/17/2015
Geiss Health; other; human breast milk banks, companies, and cooperatives; regulate.
HB 4207
referred
2/17/2015
Yonker Health occupations; advanced practice registered nurses; establish licensure requirements, revise requirements for nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists, and provide other general amendments.
HB 4218
referred
2/18/2015
Smiley Health facilities; emergency medical services; emergency contraception; require department to develop written information about and require health facilities and agencies that provide emergency or urgent care to offer to certain victims of criminal sexual conduct.
HB 4235
referred
2/24/2015
Darany Records; death; maternal deaths; require physicians and certain health facilities to report to department as part of health information system.
HB 4241
referred
2/25/2015
Hooker Health; abortion; performing an abortion without first determining whether there is a detectable heartbeat; prohibit except in an emergency.
HB 4309
referred
3/5/2015
Gamrat Health; other; religious liberty and conscience protection act; enact to allow health care payers, health facilities, and health providers a right to decline to provide or pay for certain objectionable health care services.
HB 4403
referred
3/25/2015
Kosowski Health occupations; health care professionals; health professionals licensed in another state; allow to provide free care in certain circumstances.
HB 4437
referred
4/14/2015
Yonker Health; pharmaceuticals; FDA-designated interchangeable biological drug products; allow substitution for brand-name drugs by pharmacists.
HB 4438
referred
4/14/2015
Lyons Health; emergency response; auto-injectable epinephrine; allow prescribers to prescribe and pharmacists to dispense to authorized entities under certain circumstances and limit liability.
HB 4531
referred
4/28/2015
Lyons Health occupations; physicians; licensure of naturopathic physicians; provide for.
HB 4582
referred
5/12/2015
Tedder Health occupations; physicians; licensing process; modify to incorporate interstate medical licensure compact.
HB 4583
referred
5/12/2015
Tedder Health occupations; physicians; interstate medical licensure compact; create.
HB 4671
referred
6/2/2015
Johnson Human services; medical services; state assistance for prescriptions; prohibit for individual convicted of crime involving controlled substances.
HB 4674
referred
6/2/2015
Leonard Mental health; code; assisted outpatient treatment program; modify.
HB 4691
referred
6/9/2015
Geiss Health; other; Internet sale of human breast milk; prohibit.
HB 4712
referred
6/11/2015
Crawford Health occupations; physical therapists; authority to prescribe treatment by a licensed physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; include chiropractors.
HB 4728
referred
6/17/2015
Gamrat Health facilities; certificate of need; requirement to obtain certificate of need; eliminate.
HB 4729
referred
6/17/2015
Gamrat Health facilities; certificate of need; references in administrative procedures act; eliminate.
HB 4812
referred
8/18/2015
Bizon Health; pharmaceuticals; FDA-designated interchangeable biological drug products; allow pharmacists to dispense.
HB 4831
referred
8/19/2015
Callton Health; abortion; counseling on abortion options; prohibit if individual benefits from sale of aborted fetal tissue or acts as a fetal tissue supplier.
HB 4910
referred
9/29/2015
Vaupel Health facilities; emergency medical services; training for medical first responders related to drug overdose victims; require.
HB 4972
referred
10/13/2015
Guerra Health occupations; physicians; government interference with physician-patient treatment programs; prohibit.
HB 5033
referred
10/28/2015
Darany Mental health; other; definition of insane person; remove certain references.
HB 5038
referred
10/29/2015
Hovey-Wright Health facilities; other; backup emergency generator at dialysis treatment centers; require to have within certain time period.
HB 5065
referred
11/5/2015
Sheppard Health facilities; hospices; criteria for certifying a perinatal hospice program; provide for, require physicians to provide certain information to patients about results of prenatal testing, and require hospitals to provide information to certain employees.
HB 5090
referred
12/1/2015
Canfield Health occupations; physicians; continuing certification requirements for physicians; prohibit as basis for license or renewal or for hospital admitting privileges.
HB 5091
referred
12/1/2015
Canfield Insurance; health benefits; insurer or health maintenance organization requiring physicians to hold certain certifications before paying or reimbursing claims; prohibit unless specifically required for licensure.
HB 5098
referred
12/1/2015
Vaupel Health; occupations; requirement for medical provider to provide information concerning resources available to the parent of a newborn child with spina bifida; provide for.
HB 5126
referred
12/8/2015
Hooker Health; immunizations; promulgation of certain rules by the department of health and human services that are more stringent than the vaccination exemptions provided in statute and exclude individuals from school as a disease control measure; prohibit.
HB 5127
referred
12/8/2015
Hooker Education; attendance; promulgation of certain rules that are more stringent than the requirements for claiming exemption from immunizations; prohibit.
HB 5138
referred
12/9/2015
re-referred on 3/10/2016
Pettalia Businesses; nonprofit corporations; authorization to restructure municipal health facilities corporations; revise requirements.
HB 5182
referred
12/17/2015
Howrylak Education; special; certain language in Michigan school for the deaf act; update.
HB 5183
referred
12/17/2015
Bizon Disabilities; other; reference to "hearing impaired" and "division on deafness"; revise.
HB 5184
referred
12/17/2015
Runestad Disabilities; other; reference to "hearing impaired" in division on deafness act; revise to "deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing".
HB 5185
referred
12/17/2015
Price Crimes; definitions; reference to "deaf and dumb"; eliminate from statute.
HB 5186
referred
12/17/2015
Brinks Disabilities; other; reference to "hearing impaired" regarding certain limited teaching certificates; revise to "hard of hearing".
HB 5187
referred
12/17/2015
Darany Public employees and officers; duties; provision relating to the transfer of books and materials to successors; modify to remove obsolete language.
HB 5188
referred
12/17/2015
Phelps Disabilities; other; reference to "hearing impaired" in division on deafness act; revise to "deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing".
HB 5197
referred
12/17/2015
Townsend Health; stem cells; options regarding cord blood stem cells; require certain health professionals to inform patients during second trimester.
HB 5206
referred
1/13/2016
Wittenberg Health; other; refusal to provide services based on patient's refusal to allow provider to photocopy or scan driver license; prohibit.
HB 5314
referred
2/4/2016
Hooker Health; education; training program and written clearance form regarding concussions in youth athletes and their return to athletic activity; specify frequency of training and modify form retention requirement.
HB 5326
referred
2/9/2016
Forlini Health; pharmaceuticals; dispensing opioid antagonist pursuant to a standing order; allow under certain circumstances.
HB 5331
referred
2/10/2016
Yanez Health occupations; health care professionals; eligibility to participate in the health professional recovery program; expand to include emergency medical services personnel.
HB 5361
referred
2/16/2016
Hovey-Wright Health; immunizations; exemptions to immunization requirements; modify to require the use of forms created by the department.
HB 5362
referred
2/16/2016
Brinks Education; other; exemptions to immunization requirements; modify to require the use of forms created by the department.
HB 5363
referred
2/16/2016
Brinks Education; reports; collection of information regarding immunization status at additional grade levels; require, and require notification to parents of immunization and waiver rates.
HB 5364
referred
2/16/2016
Brinks Health; immunizations; exemptions from immunization requirements; expand statements of exemption to other grades.
HB 5365
referred
2/16/2016
Hovey-Wright Health; diseases; methods for preventing the spread of communicable diseases; revise to permit the exclusion of certain individuals from schools and certain programs, and require the department to post immunization rules on its website.
HB 5374
referred
2/16/2016
Chatfield Health occupations; health care professionals; limited prescriptive authority for dental hygienists; establish.
HB 5378
referred
2/17/2016
LaVoy Health; pharmaceuticals; opioid antagonist; allow prescribers to prescribe and pharmacies to dispense to school boards under certain circumstances.
HB 5379
referred
2/17/2016
Brunner Education; school districts; training and local policies concerning administration of opioid antagonists in public schools; provide for.
HB 5390
referred
2/18/2016
Schor Law enforcement; other; requirement for certain law enforcement officers and certain firefighters to carry opioid antagonists and requirement for certain law enforcement and certain firefighters to be trained in using opioid antagonists; provide for.
HB 5394
referred
2/23/2016
Canfield Health occupations; physicians; postgraduate education requirements; revise for certain physicians practicing in medically underserved areas.
HB 5400
referred
2/24/2016
Yonker Health occupations; advanced practice registered nurses; licensure of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs); provide for and provide other general amendments.
HB 5507
referred
3/22/2016
Vaupel Health occupations; health care professionals; regulation and licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; provide for.
HB 5509
referred
3/23/2016
Inman Health occupations; health care professionals; provision of information regarding Down syndrome to certain patients by directing the patient to the department's website; require, and require department to include certain information on its website.
HB 5510
referred
3/23/2016
Kosowski Health occupations; pharmacists; disclosure of an individual's mental illness by a pharmacist; prohibit.
HB 5517
referred
3/24/2016
Schor Children; child care; child care centers, group child care homes, and family child care homes to implement safe sleep policies; require.
HB 5533
referred
4/12/2016
Canfield Health occupations; physician's assistants; regulation and oversight of physician's assistants; modify.
HB 5537
referred
4/12/2016
Vaupel State; identification cards; do-not-resuscitate (DNR) and no-heroic-measures (NHM) designations on state identification cards; allow.
HB 5547
referred
4/13/2016
Darany Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for crimes involving the provision of raw human milk for human consumption; provide for.
HB 5570
referred
4/19/2016
Darany Human services; medical services; voucher program for nonemergency care at certain clinics; establish.
HB 5587
referred
4/21/2016
Crawford Health occupations; pharmacists; pharmacist refusing to dispense a prescription; exempt from civil liability under certain circumstances.
HB 5607
referred
4/27/2016
Kosowski Health; diseases; cytomegalovirus public education awareness; create.
HB 5643
referred
5/11/2016
Vaupel Health; emergency response; opioid response training for peace officers; require and provide standards.
HB 5690
referred
5/25/2016
Lyons Health; children; criteria for care of newborn infant within the first hour of being born; modify, and require hospitals to allow at least 1 hour of skin contact with mother immediately after birth.
HB 5782
referred
7/13/2016
Callton Mental health; code; medical information sharing in certain cases; require.
HB 5783
referred
7/13/2016
Callton Health; occupations; licensing of genetic counselors; require.
HB 5790
referred
8/3/2016
Howell Law enforcement; peace officers; definition of peace officer in the carrying and administering opioid antagonists act; expand to include corrections officers.
HB 5802
referred
8/3/2016
Singh Health; death; physician-assisted suicide; allow under certain circumstances.
HB 5803
referred
8/3/2016
Cochran Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for crimes involving physician-assisted suicide; revise.
HB 5877
referred
9/15/2016
Garcia Health; pharmaceuticals; automated dispensing devices that are located in certain areas affiliated with a hospital; require the devices to be under the control of a pharmacist in charge of the hospital pharmacy.
HB 5881
referred
9/15/2016
Lyons Health; emergency response; auto-injectable epinephrine; department of health and human services to approve certain training programs and to administer certain certificate and reporting requirements.
HB 5902
referred
9/20/2016
Price Health; vital records; reporting a live birth; amend to protect the confidentiality of parents who surrender a newborn under the safe delivery of newborns law.
HB 5973
referred
10/19/2016
Howrylak Health occupations; psychologists; exemption from examination requirement for limited license psychologists; provide for certain individuals.
HB 6011
referred
11/9/2016
Howrylak Insurance; other; coverage for mental health treatment; provide that coverage cannot be more restrictive than coverage for medical treatment.
HB 6012
referred
11/9/2016
Howrylak Insurance; health insurers; coverage for mental health treatment; provide that coverage cannot be more restrictive than coverage for medical treatment.
HB 6045
referred
11/10/2016
Driskell Health; pharmaceuticals; prescribing and dispensing opiates; limit to a 7-day supply except under certain circumstances.
HB 6049
referred
11/10/2016
Howrylak Health; other; epinephrine; allow prescribers to prescribe and pharmacists to dispense to school boards under certain circumstances and limit liability.
HB 6050
referred
11/10/2016
Tedder Education; school districts; allowable delivery mechanisms for the administration of epinephrine in schools; expand.
HB 6063
referred
11/29/2016
Faris Health; blood; duties of the childhood lead poisoning prevention and control commission; provide for.
HB 6064
referred
11/29/2016
Phelps Health; blood; childhood lead poisoning prevention and control commission; establish.
HB 6070
referred
11/30/2016
Driskell Health facilities; hospitals; reporting requirements; require hospitals to report mushroom poisonings to the department of agriculture and rural development.
HB 6109
referred
12/7/2016
Phelps Disabilities; other; division on behavioral health for deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing; create.
HB 6110
referred
12/7/2016
Howrylak Disabilities; other; commission on behavioral health for deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing; create.
SB 64
referred
4/21/2015
Hansen Health facilities; nursing homes; patient care policies and compliance procedures; require establishment based on nationally recognized guidelines or best-practice resources and provide other general amendments.
SB 65
referred
4/21/2015
Hansen Health facilities; nursing homes; employment of or contracting with health professionals to provide medical treatment to patients; allow regardless of business entity status of nursing home.
SB 66
referred
4/21/2015
Hansen Businesses; limited liability companies; definition of learned profession; clarify application to certain health professionals.
SB 67
referred
4/21/2015
Hansen Businesses; business corporations; definition of learned profession; clarify application to certain health professionals.
SB 112
referred
3/12/2015
Hertel Records; health; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs".
SB 113
referred
3/12/2015
Marleau Human services; children's services; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs".
SB 114
referred
3/12/2015
O'Brien Children; child care; reference to "crippled children"; revise to "children and youth with special health care needs".
SB 195
referred
3/26/2015
Hune Health; pharmaceuticals; fingerprint requirement for application of a new pharmacy, manufacturer, or wholesale distributor license; revise.
SB 352
referred
12/10/2015
O'Brien Health; home health care; designated caregiver act; create.
SB 374
referred
10/14/2015
Hertel Health; code; references to venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 375
referred
10/14/2015
MacGregor Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 376
referred
10/14/2015
Knezek Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 377
referred
10/14/2015
Schmidt Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 378
referred
10/14/2015
O'Brien Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 379
referred
10/14/2015
Warren Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 380
referred
10/14/2015
Marleau Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 381
referred
10/14/2015
Young Health; code; references of venereal disease; revise to sexually transmitted infection.
SB 444
referred
11/5/2015
Stamas Health; emergency services; critical incident stress management services for emergency service providers; provide for, prohibit disclosure of confidential communications, and provide immunity from liability.
SB 468
referred
9/17/2015
Green Health occupations; pharmacy technicians; eligibility for licensure of pharmacy technicians and requirements for limited license pharmacy technicians; modify, and revise certain requirements for pharmacies and pharmacists.
SB 502
referred
2/3/2016
Marleau Health; pharmaceuticals; health care false claims act; modify exemption to exempt certain payments from drug manufacturers to certain persons for certain health care services.
SB 564
referred
4/27/2016
Pavlov Health; abortion; compensation for the distribution or transfer of any portion of an embryo, fetus, or neonate, including portions obtained as the result of an elective abortion; prohibit.
SB 565
referred
4/27/2016
Pavlov Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for the receipt of compensation for the distribution or transfer of embryo, fetus, or neonate, including portions obtained as the result of an elective abortion; enact.
SB 592
referred
12/9/2015
Hertel Health facilities; other; designated places to perform surgical removal of a human organ; expand.
SB 644
referred
2/9/2016
re-referred on 2/23/2016
Stamas Businesses; nonprofit corporations; authorization to restructure municipal health facilities corporations; revise requirements.
SB 680
referred
1/27/2016
MacGregor Mental health; other; naming the new patient programming center at the Walter P. Reuther Psychiatric Hospital the "James K. Haveman Center for Activity, Rehabilitation, and Therapy"; provide for.
SB 690
referred
5/17/2016
Robertson Disabilities; other; reference to "hearing impaired" in the Michigan telecommunications act; revise to "deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing".
SB 691
referred
5/17/2016
Knollenberg Health occupations; speech-language pathologists; reference to "hearing impaired"; revise to "hard of hearing".
SB 692
referred
5/17/2016
Zorn Mental health; code; reference to deaf and "hearing impaired"; revise to deaf, deafblind, and "hard of hearing".
SB 693
referred
5/17/2016
O'Brien Disabilities; other; title of division on deafness act; revise to division on deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing.
SB 694
referred
5/17/2016
Warren Disabilities; other; reference to "deaf, deafblind, and hearing impaired" in the department of civil rights; revise.
SB 753
referred
4/27/2016
MacGregor Health; other; regulation of telehealth in Michigan; provide for.
SB 805
referred
11/9/2016
Ananich Health; pharmaceuticals; opioid antagonist; allow prescribers to prescribe and pharmacies to dispense to school boards under certain circumstances.
SB 806
referred
11/9/2016
Zorn Education; school districts; training and local policies concerning administration of opioid antagonists in public schools; provide for.
SB 1015
referred
9/21/2016
Warren Health occupations; health care professionals; licensure program for practice of applied behavioral analysis (ABA); establish.
SB 1016
referred
9/21/2016
O'Brien Health occupations; health care professionals; Michigan board of behavioral analysts; create.
SB 1019
referred
9/8/2016
Kowall Health occupations; nurses; scope of practice of certified nurse anesthetists; modify.
HR 144
referred
9/16/2015
McCready A resolution to urge the President of the United States and Congress to support the National Breast Cancer Coalition's goal of knowing how to end breast cancer by 2020.
HR 169
referred
10/20/2015
Nesbitt A resolution to memorialize the Congress of the United States to take actions necessary to help families enduring mental health crisis.
HR 244
referred
3/10/2016
Garrett A resolution to urge the United States Congress to authorize more aggressive funding for research into the Zika virus.
HR 386
referred
12/7/2016
Zemke A resolution to condemn state-sanctioned, forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in the People's Republic of China, urge action by the President of the United States and the U.S. medical community, and demand an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
SCR 5
referred
4/16/2015
Colbeck A concurrent resolution to request the United States Congress to enact legislation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to promulgate rules that would promote the opportunity for consumers to choose Direct Primary Care Services as an integral part of their health care plan.
SCR 31
referred
9/22/2016
Warren A concurrent resolution to urge the United States Congress as well as the state of Michigan to increase funding for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma research.