state of michigan

100th Legislature

Regular session of 2020

Introduced by Senator Ananich

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 813

AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled “An act to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to mental health; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials and certain private agencies and individuals; to regulate certain agencies and facilities providing mental health or substance use disorder services; to provide for certain charges and fees; to establish civil admission procedures for individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, or developmental disability; to establish guardianship procedures for individuals with developmental disability; to establish procedures regarding individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, or developmental disability who are in the criminal justice system; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 720 (MCL 330.1720), as added by 1995 PA 290, and by adding section 721.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 720. (1) The department shall provide an annual statistical report to the members of the house and senate standing committees and appropriations subcommittees with legislative oversight of mental health issues summarizing all deaths and causes of deaths, if known, of mental health care recipients that have been reported to the department, including deaths that occurred within 48 hours after discharge, and all deaths that have occurred in state facilities.

(2) In the report described in subsection (1), the department must include information indicating whether or not it has initiated an investigation or is in the process of an investigation as required under section 721 regarding the recipient’s death and, if known, the findings of the investigation.

Sec. 721. The department must investigate all deaths reported by a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit that are the result of a suicide or where the cause of death is reported as unknown.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor