HB-4831, As Passed House, June 9, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 4831

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     [A bill to make, supplement, adjust, and consolidate

 

appropriations for various state departments and agencies, the

 

judicial branch, and the legislative branch for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2006; to provide for certain conditions on

 

appropriations; and to provide for the expenditure of the

 

appropriations.]

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

ARTICLE 1

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

 

     Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article,

 

the amounts listed in this part are appropriated for the department

 


of agriculture for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, from

 

the funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary of the

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions.......... 6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 694.0

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    120,384,200

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG from MDCH, local public health operations..........         8,878,700

 

IDG from MDLEG (LCC), liquor quality testing fees......           185,900

 

IDG from MDEQ, aquifer protection and dispute

 

   resolution...........................................            50,000

 

IDG from MDEQ, biosolids...............................            87,300

 

IDG from MDEQ, MAEAP...................................           150,000

 

IDG from MDEQ, type II well survey.....................            16,300

 

IDG from MDNR, district forestry and wildlife program..         1,000,000

 

Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers............................................        10,368,200

 

ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $    110,016,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

HHS-FDA................................................           349,600

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................        29,795,800

 

EPA, multiple grants...................................         2,436,300

 

Total federal revenues.................................        32,581,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................                 0

 


Private - slow-the-spread foundation...................           138,700

 

Total private revenues.................................           138,700

 

Agricultural pollution prevention fund.................               100

 

Agricultural preservation fund.........................           900,000

 

Agriculture equine industry development fund...........        17,390,500

 

Civil penalties........................................            45,700

 

Commodity inspection fees..............................           888,300

 

Gasoline inspection and testing fund...................         2,468,700

 

Groundwater and freshwater protection fund.............         4,936,800

 

Horticulture fund......................................            74,700

 

Industry support funds.................................           534,500

 

Licensing and inspection fees..........................         6,689,400

 

Refined petroleum fund.................................         3,191,100

 

Nonretail liquor fees..................................           625,200

 

Pseudorabies and swine brucellosis fund................            15,600

 

State services fee fund................................         8,535,600

 

Testing fees...........................................           405,000

 

Upper Peninsula state fair revenue.....................         1,338,400

 

Weights and measures regulation fees...................           624,300

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................        48,663,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     28,631,700

 

   Sec. 102.  EXECUTIVE (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions.......... 6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 52.0

 

Commissions and boards................................. $         47,300

 

Unclassified positions--6.0 FTE positions..............           354,000

 

Executive direction--10.0 FTE positions................         1,050,500

 


Human resource optimization user charges...............            29,500

 

Management services--35.5 FTE positions................         2,997,300

 

Statistical reporting service--4.0 FTE positions.......           348,000

 

Emergency management--2.5 FTE positions................           226,200

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      5,052,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Gasoline inspection and testing fund...................            55,000

 

Industry support funds.................................            30,000

 

Nonretail liquor fees..................................             8,800

 

Refined petroleum fund.................................           221,500

 

State services fee fund................................           561,300

 

Upper Peninsula state fair revenue.....................             9,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      4,167,200

 

   Sec. 103.  DEPARTMENTWIDE (HEALTH)

 

Rent and building occupancy charges.................... $       1,463,400

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      1,463,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................           100,500

 

EPA, multiple grants...................................            61,200

 

HHS-FDA................................................            13,100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Agricultural preservation fund.........................            23,900

 

Groundwater and freshwater protection fund.............             9,500

 

Licensing and inspection fees..........................            59,700

 

Nonretail liquor fees..................................             7,900

 


Refined petroleum fund.................................           114,000

 

State services fee fund................................           304,600

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $        769,000

 

   Sec. 104.  FOOD AND DAIRY (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 107.0

 

Food safety and quality assurance--107.0 FTE positions. $     10,873,700

 

Local public health operations.........................         8,878,700

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     19,752,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG from MDCH, local public health operations..........         8,878,700

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................            24,800

 

HHS-FDA................................................           203,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Civil penalties........................................            45,700

 

Licensing and inspection fees..........................         3,187,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      7,411,600

 

   Sec. 105.  ANIMAL INDUSTRY (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 52.0

 

Animal health and welfare--25.5 FTE positions.......... $      2,407,900

 

Bovine tuberculosis program--26.5 FTE positions........         5,747,900

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      8,155,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................         1,251,000

 

HHS-FDA................................................            68,800

 


   Special revenue funds:

 

Agriculture equine industry development fund...........         2,804,300

 

Licensing and inspection fees..........................           102,000

 

Pseudorabies and swine brucellosis fund................            15,600

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      3,914,100

 

   Sec. 106.  PESTICIDE AND PLANT PEST MANAGEMENT

 

(HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 231.8

 

Pesticide and plant pest management--119.8 FTE

 

   positions............................................ $     12,704,600

 

Emerald ash borer control program--112.0 FTE positions.        23,660,600

 

Michigan State University..............................           210,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     36,575,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................        25,809,100

 

EPA, multiple grants...................................         1,610,600

 

HHS-FDA................................................            64,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Private - slow-the-spread foundation...................           138,700

 

Commodity inspection fees..............................           888,300

 

Horticulture fund......................................            74,700

 

Industry support funds.................................           319,900

 

Licensing and inspection fees..........................         3,220,500

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      4,449,400

 

   Sec. 107.  ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP (RESOURCE

 

CONSERVATION)

 


   Full-time equated classified positions........... 47.0

 

Environmental stewardship--32.7 FTE positions.......... $      2,704,500

 

Groundwater and freshwater protection program--8.3 FTE

 

   positions............................................         5,026,600

 

Farmland and open space preservation--6.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................           902,500

 

Agriculture pollution prevention program...............           400,100

 

Cooperative resources management initiative program....         1,000,000

 

Local conservation districts...........................         1,516,800

 

Rural partners of Michigan.............................            25,000

 

Migrant labor housing..................................              100

 

Aquifer protection program.............................            50,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     11,625,600

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG from MDEQ, aquifer protection and dispute

 

   resolution...........................................            50,000

 

IDG from MDEQ, biosolids...............................            87,300

 

IDG from MDEQ, type II well survey.....................            16,300

 

IDG from MDNR, district forestry and wildlife program..         1,000,000

 

IDG from MDEQ, right to farm...........................           150,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................           400,000

 

EPA, multiple grants...................................           424,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Agricultural pollution prevention fund.................               100

 

Agricultural preservation fund.........................           875,900

 


Agriculture equine industry development fund...........            25,000

 

Groundwater and freshwater protection fund.............         4,927,200

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      3,669,300

 

   Sec. 108.  LABORATORY PROGRAM (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 148.0

 

Laboratory services--60.5 FTE positions................ $      5,438,000

 

USDA monitoring--18.0 FTE positions....................         1,990,000

 

Consumer protection program--69.5 FTE positions........         4,883,800

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     12,311,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG from MDLEG (LCC), liquor quality testing fees......           183,100

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple programs.................................         2,011,400

 

EPA, multiple programs.................................           340,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Gasoline inspection and testing fund...................         2,386,700

 

Refined petroleum fund.................................         2,855,600

 

State services fee fund................................           503,200

 

Testing fees...........................................           405,000

 

Weights and measures regulation fees...................           624,300

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      3,002,500

 

   Sec. 109.  AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT (THRIVING

 

ECONOMY)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions............ 8.0

 

Agriculture development--5.0 FTE positions............. $        873,300

 

Grape and wine program--3.0 FTE positions..............           662,600

 


Export market development program......................            50,000

 

Michigan agricultural surplus system...................           630,500

 

FFA/Michigan 4-H foundation............................           100,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      2,316,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DAG, multiple grants...................................           199,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Agriculture equine industry development fund...........           100,000

 

Industry support funds.................................           154,600

 

Nonretail liquor fees..................................           608,000

 

State services fee fund................................           350,700

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $        904,100

 

   Sec. 110.  FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS (THRIVING ECONOMY)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 16.5

 

Upper Peninsula state fair--7.0 FTE positions.......... $      1,328,500

 

Fairs, racing and producer security--9.5 FTE positions.         1,057,400

 

Building and track improvement - county and state

 

   fairs................................................           963,200

 

Distribution of outstanding winning tickets............           500,000

 

Licensed tracks - light horse racing...................           118,600

 

Premiums - county and state fairs......................         1,614,000

 

Purses and supplements - fairs/licensed tracks.........         4,020,800

 

Quarterhorse programs..................................            61,400

 

Standardbred breeders' awards..........................         1,908,900

 

Standardbred purses and supplements - licensed tracks..           427,600

 

Standardbred sire stakes...............................         1,599,300

 


Standardbred training and stabling.....................            67,600

 

Thoroughbred owners' awards............................           240,700

 

Thoroughbred program...................................         2,798,900

 

Thoroughbred sire stakes...............................         1,599,300

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     18,306,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Agriculture equine industry development fund...........        14,306,300

 

Industry support funds.................................            30,000

 

Licensing and inspection fees..........................           119,300

 

State services fee fund................................         2,522,100

 

Upper Peninsula state fair revenue.....................         1,328,500

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $              0

 

   Sec. 111.  OFFICE OF RACING COMMISSIONER (THRIVING

 

ECONOMY)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 31.7

 

Office of racing commissioner--31.7 FTE positions...... $       3,296,400

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      3,296,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

State services fee fund................................         3,296,400

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $              0

 

   Sec. 112.  INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY (HEALTH)

 

Information technology services and projects........... $       1,528,200

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      1,528,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 


IDG from MDLEG (LCC), liquor quality testing fees......             2,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Groundwater and freshwater protection fund.............               100

 

Agriculture equine industry development fund...........           154,900

 

Agricultural preservation fund.........................               200

 

State services fee fund................................           997,300

 

Upper Peninsula state fair revenue.....................               900

 

Gasoline inspection testing fund.......................            27,000

 

Nonretail liquor fees..................................               500

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $        344,500

 

 

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

     Sec. 201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state

 

constitution of 1963, total state spending from state resources

 

under part 1 for fiscal year 2005-2006 is $77,295,600.00 and state

 

spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2005-2006 is $3,316,800.00. The itemized

 

statement below identifies appropriations from which spending to

 

local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

Groundwater and freshwater protection program.......... $      1,800,000

 

Local conservation districts...........................         1,516,800

 

TOTAL.................................................. $     3,316,800

 

     Sec. 202. The appropriations authorized under this article are

 


subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101

 

to 18.1594.

 

     Sec. 203. As used in this article:

 

     (a) "DAG" means the United States department of agriculture.

 

     (b) "Department" means the department of agriculture.

 

     (c) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

     (d) "EPA" means the United States environmental protection

 

agency.

 

     (e) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

     (f) "HHS-FDA" means the United States department of health and

 

human services - food and drug administration.

 

     (g) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

     (h) "MAEAP" means the Michigan agriculture environmental

 

assurance program.

 

     (i) "MDCH" means the Michigan department of community health.

 

     (j) "MDLEG (LCC)" means the Michigan department of labor and

 

economic growth - liquor control commission.

 

     (k) "MDEQ" means the Michigan department of environmental

 

quality.

 

     (l) "MDNR" means the Michigan department of natural resources.

 

     Sec. 204. The department of civil service shall bill

 

departments and agencies at the end of the first fiscal quarter for

 

the 1% charge authorized by section 5 of article XI of the state

 

constitution of 1963. Payments shall be made for the total amount

 

of the billing by the end of the second fiscal quarter.

 

     Sec. 205. (1) A hiring freeze is imposed on the state

 

classified civil service. State departments and agencies are

 


prohibited from hiring any new classified civil service employees

 

and prohibited from filling any vacant state classified civil

 

service positions. This hiring freeze does not apply to internal

 

transfers of classified employees from 1 position to another within

 

a department.

 

     (2) The hiring freeze described in subsection (1) does not

 

apply to any classified state civil service position that meets any

 

of the following criteria:

 

     (a) Filling the vacant position will directly prevent the loss

 

of federal funding.

 

     (b) The vacant position deals directly with the direct

 

provision of public safety services including prison officers, law

 

enforcement officers, and child services enforcement workers.

 

     (c) The vacant position provides direct health care services

 

including physicians, nurses, and other direct health care

 

providers.

 

     (3) The state budget director shall report quarterly to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house of representatives standing

 

committees on appropriations the number of new state classified

 

civil service employees hired during the previous quarter and the

 

reasons to justify the hiring.

 

     Sec. 208. Unless otherwise specified, the department shall use

 

the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article.

 

This shall include transmission of reports via electronic mail to

 

the recipients identified for each reporting requirement and shall

 

include placement of reports on an Internet or Intranet site.

 

     Sec. 209. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or

 

services, or both, are available.

 

     (2) In addition to the requirements in subsection (1), the

 

purchase of goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and

 

of comparable quality shall be Michigan goods or services, or both,

 

if available. The department shall also encourage the use of

 

Michigan produced agricultural products by all state agencies and

 

departments if competitively priced and of comparable quality and

 

if available.

 

     [Sec. 210. The director of each department receiving

 

opriations in part 1 shall take all reasonable steps to ensure

 

nesses in deprived and depressed communities compete for and

 

orm contracts to provide services or supplies, or both. Each

 

tor shall strongly encourage firms with which the department

 

racts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

ived communities for services, supplies, or both.]

 

     Sec. 211. (1) The unexpended and unobligated balance of any

 

state restricted fund or account remaining at the end of the fiscal

 

year shall revert back to the state restricted fund or account from

 

which appropriated and be available for appropriation for the next

 

fiscal year. Appropriations that revert to a state restricted fund

 

or account pursuant to this section shall not revert to the general

 

fund of this state.

 

     (2) A state restricted revenue fund or account that receives

 

revenues in excess of expenditures made from that state restricted

 

revenue fund or account shall not have the excess revenue revert to

 


the general fund of this state.

 

     Sec. 212. (1) Of the funds appropriated in part 1, the

 

department may provide for indemnity as provided for pursuant to

 

the animal industry act of 1987, 1988 PA 466, MCL 287.701 to

 

287.745, not to exceed $100,000.00 per order from any line item for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006. Before the department

 

provides for an indemnification under this section, the department

 

shall report the reason for the indemnification, the amount of the

 

indemnification, and to whom the indemnification is to be paid. The

 

report shall be given to each member of the house and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on agriculture and to the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies and the state budget director.

 

     (2) The department of agriculture shall make an

 

indemnification payment for the fair market value of livestock

 

killed by a wolf or coyote, if the kill is verified by the

 

department of natural resources. The fair market value of the

 

livestock shall be determined pursuant to the indemnification

 

procedures prescribed in the animal industry act, 1988 PA 466, MCL

 

287.701 to 287.745. In addition to the funds appropriated in part

 

1, the department of agriculture is authorized to expend the funds

 

received from the department of natural resources to reimburse the

 

department of agriculture for all indemnification payments made

 

pursuant to this subsection.

 

     Sec. 214. Of the funds appropriated in part 1 that are other

 

than line-item grants, the department shall not provide grants to

 

local government agencies, institutions of higher education, or

 

nonprofit organizations unless the department provides notice of

 


the grant to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

agriculture at least 10 days before the grant is issued. The grants

 

shall be used to support research or other related activities for

 

the purpose of enhancing the agricultural industries in this state.

 

     Sec. 216. The unexpended and unencumbered balance of revenue

 

deposited pursuant to section 20 of the horse racing law of 1995,

 

1995 PA 279, MCL 431.320, for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2006, shall be appropriated to the Michigan agriculture equine

 

industry development fund for distribution as set forth in section

 

20 of the horse racing law of 1995, 1995 PA 279, MCL 431.320.

 

     Sec. 219. The department of information technology shall

 

annually publish a schedule of rates, user fees, and charges or

 

assessments for standard services and information system support

 

requirements to be made to departments for technology-related

 

services and projects. This schedule, as well as copies of related

 

interagency agreements, shall be provided to the state budget

 

office and the house and senate committees on appropriations before

 

October 15, 2005. The department of agriculture shall not process

 

any payments or fund transfers to the department of information

 

technology until 30 days after the 2005-2006 fiscal year schedule

 

of rates, user fees, and assessments is provided to the

 

legislature, pursuant to this section.

 

     Sec. 220. Amounts appropriated in part 1 for information

 

technology may be designated as work projects and carried forward

 

to support technology projects under the direction of the

 

department of information technology. Funds designated in this

 

manner are not available for expenditure until approved as work

 


projects under section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1451a.

 

     Sec. 221. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

information technology, departments and agencies shall pay user

 

fees to the department of information technology for technology-

 

related services and projects not to exceed the appropriation in

 

section 112 of part 1. The user fees shall be subject to provisions

 

of an interagency agreement between the departments and agencies

 

and the department of information technology.

 

     Sec. 223. (1) Due to the current budgetary problems in this

 

state, out-of-state travel for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2006 shall be limited to situations in which 1 or more of the

 

following conditions apply:

 

     (a) The travel is required by legal mandate or court order or

 

for law enforcement purposes.

 

     (b) The travel is necessary to protect the health or safety of

 

Michigan citizens or visitors or to assist other states in similar

 

circumstances.

 

     (c) The travel is necessary to produce budgetary savings or to

 

increase state revenues, including protecting existing federal

 

funds or securing additional federal funds.

 

     (d) The travel is necessary to comply with federal

 

requirements.

 

     (e) The travel is necessary to secure specialized training for

 

staff that is not available within this state.

 

     (f) The travel is financed entirely by federal or nonstate

 

funds.

 


     (2) If out-of-state travel is necessary but does not meet 1 or

 

more of the conditions in subsection (1), the state budget director

 

may grant an exception to allow the travel. Any exceptions granted

 

by the state budget director shall be reported on a monthly basis

 

to the house and senate appropriations committees.

 

     (3) Not later than January 1 of each year, each department

 

shall prepare a travel report listing all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year that was funded in whole or in part with

 

funds appropriated in the department's budget. The report shall be

 

submitted to the chairs and members of the house and senate

 

appropriations committees, the fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget director. The report shall include the following

 

information:

 

     (a) The name of each person receiving reimbursement for travel

 

outside this state or whose travel costs were paid by this state.

 

     (b) The destination of each travel occurrence.

 

     (c) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

     (d) A brief statement of the reason for each travel

 

occurrence.

 

     (e) The transportation and related costs of each travel

 

occurrence, including the proportion funded with state general

 

fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion funded with state

 

restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

     (f) A total of all out-of-state travel funded for the

 

immediately preceding fiscal year.

 


 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

     Sec. 301. Per diem rates for commodity committees established

 

in the agriculture commodities marketing act, 1965 PA 232, MCL

 

290.651 to 290.674, 1970 PA 29, MCL 290.421 to 290.430, 1965 PA

 

114, MCL 290.551 to 290.568, and the beef industry commission act,

 

1972 PA 291, MCL 287.601 to 287.610, will be set based upon levels

 

established in section 301 of 2002 PA 516.

 

     Sec. 302. (1) The department may receive and expend revenue

 

and use that revenue to cover necessary expenses related to

 

publications, audit and licensing functions, livestock sales,

 

certification of nursery stock, bean inspection services, and

 

laboratory analyses as specified in the following:

 

     (a) Management services publications.

 

     (b) Management services audit and licensing functions.

 

     (c) Pesticide and plant pest management propagation and

 

certification of virus free foundation stock.

 

     (d) Pesticide and plant pest management bean inspection and

 

grading services.

 

     (e) Laboratory support testing for testing horses in draft

 

horse pulling contests at county fairs when local jurisdictions

 

request state assistance.

 

     (f) Laboratory support analyses to determine foreign

 

substances in horses engaged in racing or pulling contests at

 

tracks.

 

     (g) Laboratory support analysis of food, livestock, and

 

agricultural products for disease, foreign products for disease,

 


toxic materials, foreign substances, and quality standards.

 

     (h) Laboratory support test samples for other agencies and

 

organizations.

 

     (i) Fruit and vegetable inspection at shipping and termination

 

points and processing plants.

 

     (2) The department shall notify the senate and house of

 

representatives appropriations subcommittees on agriculture and the

 

senate and house fiscal agencies 60 days prior to the effective

 

date of any proposed changes to the fees authorized under this

 

section.

 

     (3) Annually, before February 1, the department shall provide

 

a report to the senate and house of representatives appropriations

 

subcommittees on agriculture and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies detailing all the fees charged by the department under the

 

authorization provided in this section, including, but not limited

 

to, rates, number of individuals paying each fee, and the revenue

 

generated by each fee in the previous fiscal year.

 

     Sec. 303. Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for statistical

 

reporting service, $90,000.00 shall be used for surveys including,

 

but not limited to, fruit, vegetables, and nursery stock including

 

Christmas trees and ornamental plants. The director may include

 

other agricultural surveys such as turfgrass in the 3- to 5-year

 

rotation. The survey shall include information such as existing

 

plantings/acreage, new plantings/acreage, production, and number of

 

growers.

 

     Sec. 304. From the funds appropriated in part 1, section 108,

 

not less than $3,800,000.00 shall be used for the motor fuel

 


quality inspection program to ensure motor fuel quality and the

 

accuracy of fuel pumps at Michigan service stations.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 205, the department shall

 

hire additional field and laboratory staff for the motor fuel

 

quality inspection program.

 

 

 

FOOD AND DAIRY

 

     Sec. 401. (1) The department shall monitor restaurant

 

inspection and licensing functions carried out by local health

 

departments to ensure uniform application and enforcement of

 

minimum program requirements. On or before April 1, 2006, the

 

department shall report to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on agriculture, the senate and house fiscal agencies,

 

and the state budget director on local health department

 

conformance with minimum program requirements.

 

     (2) If a local unit of government incurs additional costs

 

resulting from its efforts to control a significant food-borne

 

outbreak, the director shall seek additional resources to reimburse

 

the local unit of government for these additional costs. The

 

director shall involve the local health officer of the jurisdiction

 

affected in all aspects of the control of any food-borne outbreak.

 

     Sec. 402. Not later than April 1, 2006, the department shall

 

provide a report to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on agriculture and the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies describing significant food-borne outbreaks and

 

emergencies including any enforcement actions taken related to food

 

safety during the 2004-2005 fiscal year.

 


     Sec. 403. The department, in conjunction with the department

 

of community health, shall assure that a process is in place that

 

requires a local unit of government to obtain prior approval from

 

the department before any reallocation or redistribution of program

 

funds appropriated in section 104.

 

 

 

ANIMAL INDUSTRY

 

     Sec. 450. From the funds appropriated in section 105 for the

 

bovine tuberculosis program, the department shall reimburse the

 

department of natural resources for those costs associated with

 

monitoring and testing wildlife for bovine tuberculosis that are

 

necessary to support the department goals and are jointly agreed to

 

by the department and the department of natural resources to be in

 

excess of efforts necessary to effectively plan and execute the

 

eradication of bovine tuberculosis from Michigan's wild free-

 

ranging deer herd.

 

     Sec. 451. From the funds appropriated in section 105 for

 

bovine tuberculosis, the department shall pay for all whole herd

 

testing costs and individual animal testing costs in the modified

 

accredited zone to maintain split-state status requirements. These

 

costs include indemnity and compensation for injury causing death

 

or downer to animals.

 

     Sec. 452. In the event of a significant animal or plant health

 

outbreak, the director shall seek additional state and federal

 

resources to cover the additional costs associated with addressing

 

the outbreak.

 

 

 


PESTICIDE AND PLANT PEST MANAGEMENT

 

     Sec. 501. Of the funds appropriated in section 106 to the

 

pesticide and plant pest management division, up to $100,000.00 may

 

be made available to the Michigan cooperative extension service to

 

train applicators. Reimbursement shall be based on actual

 

expenditures and revenue availability.

 

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

 

     Sec. 603. The department shall apply for all federal funds for

 

which it is eligible that can be used to support the migrant labor

 

housing program.

 

     Sec. 604. The appropriation in section 107 for local

 

conservation districts shall be allocated in the following manner:

 

     (a) Of the total appropriation, each local conservation

 

district meeting the minimum grant requirements shall receive a

 

grant of $19,200.00 to support basic operations, unless the

 

district resides in a county consisting of multiple districts, in

 

which case a $19,200.00 grant shall be divided equally among the

 

districts in that county. The amount of money allocated under this

 

subdivision shall not be used by local conservation districts to

 

replace any money received from local sources.

 

     (b) Any amount remaining from the appropriation after

 

distributions under subdivision (a) shall be allocated for local

 

conservation district training.

 

     Sec. 605. The appropriation in part 1, section 107, for Rural

 

Partners of Michigan shall be used to support projects and programs

 

of the Rural Partners of Michigan, a nonprofit Michigan

 


corporation.

 

 

 

AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT

 

     Sec. 701. Within the appropriations in part 1 for agriculture

 

development, $662,600.00 is for the grape and wine industry

 

council, from which the department may provide grants for the

 

purposes as described in section 303 of the Michigan liquor control

 

code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1303.

 

     Sec. 702. In any given year when insufficient amounts of

 

Michigan surplus products are offered to the food bank council and

 

accepted for distribution, unused funds may be applied by the food

 

bank council for the direct purchase of foods from Michigan

 

growers, manufacturers, or wholesalers.

 

     Sec. 704. Indirect costs may not be charged against the FFA

 

grant in section 109 by any administering agency.

 

     Sec. 705. The appropriation in section 109 for the export

 

market development program shall be used to coordinate state

 

participation in the federal market access program and to leverage

 

federal funds for the purpose of developing new and enhancing

 

existing export markets for Michigan agricultural products.

 

     Sec. 706. From the appropriation in part 1 for agriculture

 

development, $30,000.00 shall be provided to the northwest Michigan

 

horticultural research station.

 

     Sec. 707. Of the funds appropriated in part 1, section 109 for

 

FFA/Michigan 4-H, $80,000.00 shall be distributed to the FFA

 

foundation for awards and leadership activities which encourage

 

farming and agriculture as a career and $20,000.00 shall be

 


distributed to the Michigan 4-H foundation to support Michigan 4-H

 

foundation projects and programs.

 

 

 

FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS

 

     Sec. 801. The department shall submit a report each quarter to

 

the state budget director, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on agriculture, and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies that states the simulcasting revenues generated in the

 

preceding month by each licensed track and the amount received from

 

license fees.

 

     Sec. 802. (1) The appropriation in section 110 for

 

standardbred purses and supplements - licensed tracks is intended

 

to provide state purse supplements for 4 races at state licensed

 

pari-mutuel horse racing tracks. The purse supplements are to be

 

used for races comprised only of Michigan-bred horses segregated

 

into a 4-year-old colt trot division, a 4-year-old filly trot

 

division, a 4-year-old colt pace division, and a 4-year-old filly

 

pace division.

 

     (2) The appropriation in section 110 for licensed tracks -

 

light horse racing shall be allocated as follows:

 

Arabian and Appaloosa horse racing..................... $         29,700

 

Quarter horse racing...................................            88,900

 

     Sec. 803. Included in the appropriation made in section 110

 

for the thoroughbred program is $30,500.00 for the Michigan united

 

thoroughbred breeders and owners association to conduct a

 

thoroughbred yearling show. The Michigan united thoroughbred

 

breeders and owners association shall submit to the department an

 


itemized list of expenses showing that the expenses of the yearling

 

show were paid.

 

     Sec. 804. From the funds appropriated in section 110 for

 

thoroughbred owners' awards, awards shall be distributed pursuant

 

to section 20 of the horse racing law of 1995, 1995 PA 279, MCL

 

431.320.

 

     Sec. 805. The department shall notify the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees and the fiscal agencies of any planned

 

reductions in appropriations, allocations, or expenditures from the

 

agriculture equine industry development fund no less than 10 days

 

before such reductions are implemented.

 

     Sec. 806. A county fair, district fair, 4-H fair, or state

 

fair receiving funds in section 110 to be used for prizes or

 

awards, in whole or in part, as a condition precedent to the

 

receiving of the funds for those purposes, shall publish the rules

 

relative to the prizes, awards, and deadlines for entries eligible

 

for the funds in their official premium books or lists relative to

 

the prizes or awards. An aggrieved exhibitor may make a written

 

complaint to the fair within 10 days after the fair ends. If the

 

fair has not satisfactorily settled the grievance within 45 days

 

after it is submitted to the fair, the aggrieved person may file

 

the complaint with the department and the department shall

 

investigate the complaint and make a finding of fact regarding the

 

complaint and take appropriate action regarding the complaint.

 

     Sec. 807. Of the amount appropriated in section 110 for purses

 

and supplements - fairs/licensed tracks, a sufficient amount is

 

appropriated to provide for overnight purse supplements pursuant to

 


the horse racing law of 1995, 1995 PA 279, MCL 431.301 to 431.336.

 

     Sec. 808. Of the amount appropriated in section 110 for

 

premiums - county and state fairs, $91,400.00 shall be expended to

 

reimburse up to 75% of premiums paid to large livestock and equine

 

exhibitors in shows or exhibitions held by statewide associations

 

as defined by the department. Livestock expositions shall be

 

limited to participation in this program and prohibited from

 

participation in any state-funded premium programs. The Michigan

 

horse show association fall youth show shall be included.

 

     Sec. 809. From the appropriations for premiums - county and

 

state fairs in section 110, $40,000.00 shall be awarded through a

 

competitive grant program to local, regional, or state fairs or

 

youth education programs to promote youth involvement and adult

 

exhibitions in the animal agriculture industry.

 

     Sec. 811. The funds appropriated in section 110 for

 

distribution of outstanding winning tickets are not available for

 

expenditure until they are deposited in the Michigan agriculture

 

equine industry development fund pursuant to section 2 of 1951 PA

 

90, MCL 431.252. These funds shall be expended in accordance with

 

section 2 of 1951 PA 90, MCL 431.252. The department shall provide

 

notice to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

agriculture and the state budget director at least 10 days before

 

the funds are expended. This notice shall include the amount that

 

each program receives from the outstanding winning ticket revenue

 

deposited in the Michigan agriculture equine industry development

 

fund.

 

     Sec. 813. (1) On or before March 29, 2006, the department,

 


together with the senate and house fiscal agencies and the

 

department of management and budget, shall estimate the unreserved

 

and unencumbered closing balance of the Michigan agriculture equine

 

industry development fund for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2005. The estimate shall consider lapsed appropriations from the

 

fund and any carryforward amounts designated for appropriation in

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005.

 

     (2) On or before April 5, 2006, the department shall request a

 

legislative transfer in accordance with section 393 of the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393, to appropriate

 

any estimated unreserved and unencumbered Michigan agriculture

 

equine industry development fund balance in excess of $250,000.00.

 

The appropriations included in the transfer request shall be in

 

accordance with the requirements of section 20 of the horse racing

 

law of 1995, 1995 PA 279, MCL 431.320. At the same time the

 

department forwards its transfer request to the department of

 

management and budget, the department shall submit copies of the

 

transfer request to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on agriculture and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies.

 

     Sec. 816. From the appropriation in section 110 for fairs,

 

racing and producer security, $20,000.00 shall be granted to the

 

communications alliance to network thoroughbred ex-racehorses

 

(CANTER) to support racehorse rehabilitation programs.

 

 

 

OFFICE OF RACING COMMISSIONER

 

     Sec. 901. The racing commissioner may pay rewards of not more

 


than $5,800.00 to a person who provides information that results in

 

the arrest and conviction on a felony or misdemeanor charge for a

 

crime that involves the horse racing industry. A reward paid

 

pursuant to this section shall be paid out of the office of racing

 

commissioner line item.

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2

 

COMMUNITY COLLEGES

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

 

     Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article,

 

the amounts listed in this part are appropriated for community

 

colleges and certain other state purposes relating to education for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations in

 

this part:

 

COMMUNITY COLLEGES

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    281,327,400

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers............................................                 0

 

ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $    281,327,400

 

Total federal revenues.................................                 0

 

Total local revenues...................................                 0

 

Total private revenues.................................                 0

 


Total other state restricted revenues..................                 0

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $    281,327,400

 

   Sec. 102.  OPERATIONS (PREPARED FOR JOBS)

 

Alpena Community College............................... $      4,777,100

 

Bay de Noc Community College...........................         4,618,500

 

Delta College..........................................        12,917,100

 

Glen Oaks Community College............................         2,167,100

 

Gogebic Community College..............................         3,951,500

 

Grand Rapids Community College.........................        16,247,500

 

Henry Ford Community College...........................        19,800,700

 

Jackson Community College..............................        10,960,800

 

Kalamazoo Valley Community College.....................        11,183,600

 

Kellogg Community College..............................         8,786,700

 

Kirtland Community College.............................         2,666,800

 

Lake Michigan College..................................         4,728,900

 

Lansing Community College..............................        28,097,100

 

Macomb Community College...............................        29,978,600

 

Mid Michigan Community College.........................         3,999,100

 

Monroe County Community College........................         3,890,800

 

Montcalm Community College.............................         2,814,300

 

C.S. Mott Community College............................        14,205,400

 

Muskegon Community College.............................         8,083,900

 

North Central Michigan College.........................         2,738,100

 

Northwestern Michigan College..........................         8,248,900

 

Oakland Community College..............................        18,910,900

 

St. Clair County Community College.....................         6,334,300

 

Schoolcraft College....................................        11,098,900

 


Southwestern Michigan College..........................         5,958,000

 

Washtenaw Community College............................        11,280,600

 

Wayne County Community College.........................        14,582,200

 

West Shore Community College...........................         2,077,300

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    275,104,700

 

    Appropriated from:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $    275,104,700

 

   Sec. 103.  GRANTS (PREPARED FOR JOBS)

 

At-risk student success program........................ $      3,322,700

 

Renaissance zone tax reimbursement funding.............         2,900,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      6,222,700

 

    Appropriated from:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      6,222,700

 

 

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

     Sec. 201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state

 

constitution of 1963, total state spending from state resources

 

under part 1 for fiscal year 2005-2006 is $281,327,400.00 and state

 

spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2005-2006 is $281,327,400.00. The

 

itemized statement below identifies appropriations from which

 

spending to local units of government will occur:

 

Operations............................................. $    275,104,700

 

At-risk student success program........................         3,322,700

 


Renaissance zone tax reimbursement program.............         2,900,000

 

TOTAL.................................................. $    281,327,400

 

     Sec. 202. The appropriations authorized under this article are

 

subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101

 

to 18.1594.

 

     Sec. 203. Unless otherwise specified, a community college

 

receiving appropriations in part 1 and the department of labor and

 

economic growth shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting

 

requirements of this article. This requirement may include

 

transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement or it may include

 

placement of reports on an Internet or Intranet site.

 

     Sec. 208. The department of labor and economic growth shall

 

work collaboratively with community colleges to develop an

 

accelerated entrepreneurship curriculum, including an associate

 

degree, to provide students with the skills and knowledge needed

 

for creating their own businesses. The department shall annually

 

submit a report on the results of its work with the community

 

colleges under this section to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community colleges, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director.

 

     Sec. 209. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for

 

the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if

 

competitively priced and comparable quality American goods or

 

services, or both, are available. Preference should be given to

 

goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses if they are competitively priced and of comparable

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

quality.

 

     [Sec. 210. The principal executive officer of each community

 

ege receiving appropriations in part 1 shall take all

 

onable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed

 

unities compete for and perform contracts to provide services

 

, or both. Each principal executive officer shall

 

ngly encourage firms with which the community college contracts

 

with certified businesses in depressed and deprived

 

nities for services or supplies, or both. ]

 

     Sec. 211. (1) The money appropriated in this article is

 

appropriated for community colleges with fiscal years ending June

 

30, 2006, and shall be paid out of the state treasury and

 

distributed by the state treasurer to the respective community

 

colleges in 11 monthly installments on the sixteenth of each month,

 

or the next succeeding business day, beginning with October 16,

 

2005. Each community college shall accrue its July and August 2006

 

payments to its institutional fiscal year ending June 30, 2006.

 

However, if a community college fails to submit all verified

 

Michigan community colleges activities classification structure

 

data for school year 2004-2005 to the department of labor and

 

economic growth by November 1, 2005, the monthly installments shall

 

be withheld from that community college until those data are

 

submitted. The amount from the money appropriated in part 1 that is

 

allocated to address the special needs of at-risk students shall be

 

paid in full by the state treasurer by November 1, 2005. The amount

 

distributed to a community college or department shall not exceed

 

the net state allocation authorized by this article.

 


     (2) Except as otherwise provided by law, each of the amounts

 

appropriated shall be used solely for the respective purposes

 

stated in this article. The money appropriated by this article may

 

be used to match the cost of any available programs under the Carl

 

D. Perkins vocational and applied technology education act, 20 USC

 

2301 to 2415, including local administration.

 

     Sec. 216. (1) A community college shall pay the employer's

 

contributions to the Michigan public school employees' retirement

 

system created by the public school employees retirement act of

 

1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1408, as a condition of

 

receiving money appropriated under this article.

 

     (2) A community college shall not pay an employer's

 

contribution to more than 1 retirement fund providing benefits for

 

an employee.

 

     Sec. 217. Money appropriated in part 1 shall not be used to

 

pay for the construction or maintenance of a self-liquidating

 

project. Any construction, renovation, or other capital outlay

 

project that exceeds $1,000,000.00 requires the approval of a use

 

and finance statement by the joint capital outlay subcommittee

 

(JCOS) pursuant to JCOS policy.

 

     Sec. 220. It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

legislature restore the infrastructure, technology, equipment, and

 

maintenance (ITEM) funding provided in previous fiscal years. In

 

addition, it is the intent of the legislature that the legislature,

 

in cooperation with the Michigan community college association,

 

develop proposals and financing alternatives for special

 

maintenance projects at community colleges that otherwise would not

 


qualify for financing under the state building authority.

 

     Sec. 224. Recognizing the critical importance of education in

 

strengthening Michigan's workforce, the legislature encourages the

 

state's public community colleges to explore ways of increasing

 

collaboration and cooperation with 4-year universities,

 

particularly in the areas related to training, instruction, and

 

program articulation.

 

     Sec. 230. (1) A community college shall not expend money

 

appropriated under this article to provide health care coverage for

 

community college employees or their dependents for abortion

 

services, other than for spontaneous abortion or to prevent the

 

death of the woman upon whom the abortion is performed. A community

 

college shall not approve a collective bargaining agreement or

 

enter into any other employment contract that includes health care

 

coverage for abortion services other than spontaneous abortion or

 

to prevent the death of the woman upon whom the abortion is

 

performed.

 

     (2) If a community college expends money appropriated under

 

this article in violation of subsection (1), the community college

 

shall repay to this state an amount equal to the amount of money

 

spent in violation of subsection (1).

 

     Sec. 231. In light of sections 1, 3, and 4 of 1846 RS 83, MCL

 

551.1, 551.3, and 551.4, and section 1 of 1939 PA 168, MCL 551.271,

 

the legislature intends that a community college receiving funding

 

under this article shall not use part 1 money to extend employee

 

benefits to the unmarried partners of the community college's

 

employees except for pre- and post-natal costs.

 


     Sec. 234. Community colleges shall do the following:

 

     (a) Undertake active measures to promote equal opportunities,

 

eliminate discrimination, and foster a diverse student body and

 

administration among all people including, but not limited to,

 

women, minorities, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities.

 

     (b) Review, analyze, and eradicate activities that may tend to

 

discriminate.

 

     Sec. 235. It is the intent of the legislature that a workgroup

 

be formed to evaluate, discuss, and make recommendations for future

 

action regarding state university admission and enrollment policies

 

that specifically address the acceptance and application of college

 

credits earned by students through the postsecondary enrollment

 

options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to 388.524. The Michigan

 

community college association may create and administer the

 

workgroup and is encouraged to include members representing

 

university and K-12 school organizations. The workgroup shall

 

submit a report containing its findings and recommendations to the

 

house and senate appropriations subcommittees on community

 

colleges, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget director by March 1, 2006.

 

     Sec. 236. (1) It is the intent of the legislature that any

 

existing or new reciprocal tuition agreements entered into under

 

1972 PA 251, MCL 390.501 to 390.506, be submitted for review and

 

approval by the house and senate appropriations committees at least

 

once every 3 years.

 

     (2) It is the intent of the legislature that, under any

 

reciprocal tuition agreement approved by the house and senate

 


appropriations committees, out-of-state students pay the in-state,

 

out-of-district tuition and fee rate at any Michigan community

 

college participating in the agreement.

 

     Sec. 237. It is the intent of the legislature that a workgroup

 

that includes members of the legislature and the Michigan community

 

colleges association be formed to evaluate, discuss, and make

 

recommendations regarding the possibility of state payments in lieu

 

of taxes to community colleges whose districts contain land owned

 

by state, federal, or local governments or land that is otherwise

 

nontaxable. The workgroup shall submit a report containing its

 

findings and recommendations to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community colleges, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director by March 1, 2006.

 

     Sec. 238. It is the intent of the legislature that a workgroup

 

that includes members of the legislature and the Michigan community

 

colleges association be formed to evaluate, discuss, and make

 

recommendations regarding the impact of expanding eligibility for

 

the optional retirement plan established in section 3 of the

 

optional retirement act of 1967, 1967 PA 156, MCL 38.383, to

 

include faculty employed by community colleges on a part-time

 

basis. The workgroup shall submit a report containing its findings

 

and recommendations to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community colleges, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director by March 1, 2006.

 

     Sec. 239. The legislature intends that any executive or

 

legislative proposal or action, subsequent to the adoption of a

 

recommendation for appropriations for community colleges for the

 


fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, to increase appropriations

 

to state-supported 4-year universities in excess of the governor's

 

original recommendation for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2006, will be accompanied by a similar action or proposal for

 

state-supported community colleges.

 

     Sec. 240. The legislature intends that not less than 70% of

 

the economic development job training grant money be awarded to

 

community colleges or a consortium of community colleges and other

 

eligible applicants as provided in the budget that appropriated the

 

economic development job training grant money. Further, the

 

legislature intends that at least a portion of the total

 

appropriation for economic development job training grants be

 

awarded to community colleges that offer certified programs that

 

are bureau of apprenticeship training certified. The Michigan

 

economic development corporation shall report by November 1 of each

 

year to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges and the senate and house fiscal agencies the

 

names of the community colleges awarded grant money under this

 

section, the amount of the grants awarded, and the percentage

 

awarded to bureau of apprenticeship training certified programs.

 

     Sec. 241. (1) A task force shall be formed by October 15, 2005

 

to review, evaluate, discuss, and make recommendations regarding

 

performance indicators to be utilized in future budget years to

 

guide decisions regarding state funding to community colleges. The

 

task force shall consist of the following members:

 

     (a) Two members of the Michigan house of representatives. One

 

member shall be designated by the speaker of the house, and 1

 


member shall be designated by the house minority leader.

 

     (b) Two members of the Michigan senate. One member shall be

 

designated by the senate majority leader, and 1 member shall be

 

designated by the senate minority leader.

 

     (c) The state budget director or his or her designee.

 

     (d) The director of the department of labor and economic

 

growth or his or her designee.

 

     (e) Four representatives of Michigan public community

 

colleges. The Michigan community colleges association shall

 

designate 1 representative from each of the 4 groups described in

 

the activities classification structure data book published by the

 

department of labor and economic growth under section 501.

 

     (f) One individual designated by the governor to represent the

 

business community.

 

     (g) One individual designated by the governor to represent

 

community college students.

 

     (h) One individual designated by the governor to represent

 

community college faculty members.

 

     (2) The task force described in subsection (1) shall consider

 

at least all of the following performance indicators for community

 

colleges in performing its duties under subsection (1):

 

     (a) Total number of degrees and certificates awarded and

 

subtotals of degrees and certificates awarded in high-cost areas.

 

     (b) Total number of student contact hours provided and

 

subtotals of student contact hours provided in high-cost areas.

 

     (c) Expenditures for administration as a percentage of total

 

operating fund expenditures.

 


     (d) Licensure, certification, and registry exam pass rates and

 

the number of individuals obtaining licensure or certification or

 

passing a registry exam.

 

     (e) Degree and certificate completion rates.

 

     (f) Student transfer rates.

 

     (g) Performance at transfer institutions.

 

     (h) Student goal attainment.

 

     (i) Placement and wage rates.

 

     (j) Number of dual enrollment participants.

 

     (k) Number of individuals participating in employer-sponsored

 

training.

 

     (3) The task force described in subsection (1) shall submit a

 

report containing its findings and recommendations on the following

 

topics to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the

 

state budget director by February 1, 2006:

 

     (a) The most appropriate and reliable performance indicators

 

to be utilized to guide decisions on state funding to community

 

colleges.

 

     (b) The most efficient methodology for connecting state

 

funding to those indicators.

 

     (4) The department of labor and economic growth shall work

 

with the task force to establish mechanisms to collect and verify

 

data for any indicators that the task force recommends but for

 

which reliable data are not currently available.

 

     (5) It is the intent of the legislature that state funding to

 

community colleges will be based partially or wholly on performance

 


indicators in future budget years.

 

 

 

STATE AID - OPERATIONS

 

     Sec. 301. Unless otherwise stated, all data items used in

 

determining state aid in this article are as defined in the 2001

 

Manual for Uniform Financial Reporting, Michigan Public Community

 

Colleges, which shall be the basis for reporting data, and the 2003

 

Activities Classification Structure Manual for Michigan Community

 

Colleges, which shall be used to document financial needs of the

 

community colleges.

 

     Sec. 302. A community college shall not include in the

 

enrollment data reported for determining state aid under this

 

article any student credit hours or student contact hours for a

 

student incarcerated in a Michigan penal institution. Exclusion of

 

these students is intended to avoid the payment of state aid under

 

this article for the same individuals for whom reimbursement is

 

provided by the state correctional system.

 

     Sec. 303. A community college selected for audit under section

 

502 whose audited activities classification structure data is

 

significantly different than the data used to determine state aid

 

under this article shall return any overappropriated money as

 

provided in this subsection. The department of labor and economic

 

growth shall compare formula computations for the audited colleges

 

using pre- and post-audit data. If the state allocation is 2% or

 

more than the post-audit allocation amount, the college shall

 

return the excess money. The returned money shall be redistributed

 

to all 28 community colleges, prorated on the base appropriations

 


contained in part 1.

 

     Sec. 304. It is the intent of the legislature to achieve full

 

funding of the Gast-Mathieu fairness in funding formula.

 

 

 

GRANTS

 

     Sec. 401. (1) The community college at-risk student success

 

program is continued. The funding shall be prorated among community

 

colleges based on the number of student contact hours for

 

developmental and preparatory instruction reported by each

 

community college to the department of labor and economic growth

 

pursuant to the 2003 Activities Classification Structure Manual for

 

Michigan Community Colleges. Of the amount appropriated in part 1

 

for the at-risk student success program, $1,120,000.00 is allocated

 

for base grants of $40,000.00 each, to address the special needs of

 

at-risk students at community colleges or the acquisition or

 

upgrade of technology-related equipment and software.

 

     (2) Of the amount appropriated in part 1 for the at-risk

 

student success program, the balance of the appropriated money

 

shall be distributed on a proration utilizing the sum of the most

 

recent 3 years developmental/preparatory contact hours divided by

 

the sum of the 3-year total contact hours at each college. Each

 

community college's percentage shall be divided by the sum of all

 

the percentages systemwide to obtain each community college's

 

prorated grant amount.

 

     (3) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, the at-risk

 

student success program money is allocated as follows:

 

Alpena Community College............................... $         76,300

 


Bay de Noc Community College...........................            91,300

 

Delta College..........................................            97,100

 

Glen Oaks Community College............................           123,600

 

Gogebic Community College..............................            66,200

 

Grand Rapids Community College.........................           117,200

 

Henry Ford Community College...........................           146,300

 

Jackson Community College..............................           102,000

 

Kalamazoo Valley Community College.....................            89,700

 

Kellogg Community College..............................           155,100

 

Kirtland Community College.............................           125,800

 

Lake Michigan College..................................           154,900

 

Lansing Community College..............................           139,800

 

Macomb Community College...............................            83,600

 

Mid Michigan Community College.........................           134,400

 

Monroe County Community College........................            94,000

 

Montcalm Community College.............................            66,700

 

C.S. Mott Community College............................           102,600

 

Muskegon Community College.............................           149,700

 

North Central Michigan College.........................           115,900

 

Northwestern Michigan College..........................           123,100

 

Oakland Community College..............................           144,600

 

St. Clair Community College............................            93,400

 

Schoolcraft College....................................           129,000

 

Southwestern Michigan College..........................           134,800

 

Washtenaw Community College............................           161,700

 

Wayne County Community College.........................           174,900

 

West Shore Community College...........................           129,000

 


     (4) As used in this article, "at-risk students" means students

 

who meet 1 or more of the following criteria:

 

     (a) Are initially placed in 1 or more developmental courses as

 

a result of standardized testing or as a result of failure to make

 

satisfactory academic progress.

 

     (b) Are diagnosed as learning disabled.

 

     (c) Require English as a second language (ESL) assistance.

 

     (5) Grant funding under this section shall be utilized to

 

address the special needs of at-risk students or for equipment or

 

upgrade of information technology hardware or software. Activities

 

related to services provided to at-risk students include, but are

 

not limited to, pretesting for academic ability, counseling

 

contacts, and special programs. Equipment or information technology

 

hardware or software purchased under this section need not be

 

associated with the operation of a program designed to address the

 

needs of at-risk students.

 

     (6) Grant funding under this section shall not be used for

 

indirect costs including, but not limited to, rent, utilities, or,

 

except as provided in this section, college administration.

 

     (7) Each community college shall report to the department of

 

labor and economic growth a summary of all accomplishments under,

 

expenditures for, and compliance with the intent of this program,

 

including the number of at-risk students served. The report is

 

subject to audit as provided for in section 502(1). The report

 

shall be submitted not later than 90 days after the end of the

 

state's fiscal year.

 

     Sec. 404. The appropriation in part 1 for renaissance zone

 


reimbursements shall be made to each eligible recipient no later

 

than 60 days after the department of treasury certifies to the

 

state budget director that it has received all necessary

 

information to properly determine the amounts due each eligible

 

recipient under section 12 of the Michigan renaissance zone act,

 

1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692.

 

 

 

REPORTS AND AUDITS

 

     Sec. 501. The department of labor and economic growth shall

 

publish the activities classification structure data book for

 

Michigan community colleges on or before March 1, 2006, for use by

 

the legislature during budget development for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2007.

 

     Sec. 502. (1) The auditor general or an independent public

 

accounting firm appointed by the auditor general shall audit data

 

for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2005, as submitted to the

 

department of labor and economic growth by 7 to 10 randomly

 

selected community colleges, selected by the auditor general. A

 

community college shall maintain and provide those records

 

necessary for the auditor general or certified public accountant

 

appointed by the auditor general to determine the accuracy of the

 

reported data. The audits shall be based upon the definitions and

 

requirements contained in the 2001 Manual for Uniform Financial

 

Reporting, Michigan Public Community Colleges and the 2003

 

Activities Classification Structure Manual for Michigan Community

 

Colleges. Before the submission of a final audit report, a

 

community college may appeal the findings of the preliminary report

 


under an appeal process to be established by the auditor general.

 

The auditor general shall submit a report of the findings to the

 

house and senate appropriations committees, the department of labor

 

and economic growth, and the state budget director before June 1,

 

2006.

 

     (2) The auditor general or a certified public accountant

 

appointed by the auditor general may conduct performance audits of

 

community colleges as the auditor general considers necessary.

 

     (3) Not more than 60 days after an audit report is released by

 

the office of the auditor general, the principal executive officer

 

of the community college that was audited shall submit to the house

 

and senate appropriations committees, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, the department of labor and economic growth, the auditor

 

general, and the state budget director a plan to comply with audit

 

recommendations. The plan shall contain projected dates and

 

resources required, if any, to achieve compliance with the audit

 

recommendations, or a documented explanation of the college's

 

noncompliance with the audit recommendations concerning the matters

 

on which the audited community college and office of the auditor

 

general disagree.

 

     Sec. 503. The department of labor and economic growth shall

 

review the taxonomy of the 7 to 10 community colleges selected for

 

the audit under section 502 that is based on the 2003 Activities

 

Classification Structure Manual for Michigan Community Colleges.

 

     Sec. 504. (1) A community college shall retain certified class

 

summaries, class lists, registration documents, and student

 

transcripts that are consistent with the taxonomy of courses. For

 


each enrollment period during the fiscal year, these certified

 

documents shall identify clearly by course the number of in-

 

district and out-of-district student credit and contact hours. The

 

class summaries and class lists shall be consistent with each other

 

and shall include the course prefix and numbers, course title,

 

course credit and contact hours, credit and contact hours generated

 

by each student, and activity classifications consistent with the

 

taxonomy. An auditable process shall be used by the community

 

college to determine the unduplicated head count for in-district

 

students, out-of-district students, and prisoners for each

 

enrollment period during the fiscal year.

 

     (2) Contracts between the community college and agencies that

 

reimburse the community college for the costs of instruction shall

 

be retained for audit purposes.

 

     Sec. 505. Each community college shall have an annual audit of

 

all income and expenditures performed by an independent auditor and

 

shall furnish the independent auditor's management letter and an

 

annual audited accounting of all general and current funds income

 

and expenditures including audits of college foundations to the

 

members of the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

auditor general, the department of labor and economic growth, and

 

the state budget director before November 15, 2005. If a community

 

college fails to furnish the audit materials, the monthly state aid

 

installments shall be withheld from that college until the

 

information is submitted. All reporting shall conform to the

 

requirements set forth in the 2001 Manual for Uniform Financial

 


Reporting, Michigan Public Community Colleges.

 

     Sec. 506. (1) Each community college shall report the

 

following to the department of labor and economic growth no later

 

than November 1, 2005:

 

     (a) The number of North American Indian students enrolled each

 

term for the previous fiscal year, using guidelines and procedures

 

developed by the department of labor and economic growth and the

 

Michigan commission on Indian affairs.

 

     (b) The number of Indian tuition waivers granted each term,

 

and the monetary value of the waivers for the previous fiscal year.

 

     (2) Colleges shall use the criteria cited in 1976 PA 174, MCL

 

390.1251 to 390.1253, to determine eligibility for tuition waivers,

 

and shall grant those waivers to individuals who meet the criteria

 

and request tuition waivers.

 

     (3) The department of labor and economic growth shall compile

 

the information received under subsection (1) and shall submit this

 

compilation to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the

 

state budget director by January 7, 2006.

 

     Sec. 507. Upon request, a community college shall inform

 

interested Michigan high schools of the aggregate academic status

 

of its students for the prior academic year, in a manner prescribed

 

by the Michigan community college association and in cooperation

 

with the Michigan association of secondary school principals.

 

     Sec. 508. (1) Each community college shall report to the house

 

and senate fiscal agencies, the state budget director, and the

 

department of labor and economic growth by August 31, 2005, the

 


tuition and mandatory fees paid by a full-time in-district student

 

and a full-time out-of-district student as established by the

 

college governing board for the 2005-2006 academic year. This

 

report should also include the annual cost of attendance based on a

 

full-time course load of 30 credits. Each community college shall

 

also report any revisions to the reported 2005-2006 academic year

 

tuition and mandatory fees adopted by the college governing board

 

to the house and senate fiscal agencies, the state budget director,

 

and the department of labor and economic growth within 15 days of

 

being adopted.

 

     (2) The department of labor and economic growth shall prepare

 

and provide to community colleges a standard format for reporting

 

tuition and fees pursuant to subsection (1).

 

     Sec. 509. (1) Each community college shall report to the

 

department of labor and economic growth the numbers and type of

 

associate degrees and other certificates awarded during the

 

previous fiscal year. The report shall be made not later than

 

November 15, 2005.

 

     (2) The department of labor and economic growth shall compile

 

the information received under subsection (1) and shall submit this

 

compilation to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the

 

state budget director by January 7, 2006.

 

     Sec. 510. A community college receiving funding under this

 

article and also subject to the student right-to-know and campus

 

security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat. 2381, shall make a copy

 

of all material prepared in accordance with the public information

 


reporting requirements under the crime awareness and campus

 

security act of 1990, title II of the student right-to-know and

 

campus security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat. 2384, available

 

in hard copy and electronic format accessible through the Internet

 

for school districts, parents, and students.

 

     Sec. 511. (1) It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

frequency and scope of on-site visits, evaluations, audits, and

 

similar activities be limited to that which is reasonably necessary

 

to monitor the performance of community colleges and confirm the

 

accuracy of reported data. On-site visits, evaluations, audits, and

 

similar activities conducted to comply with the state plan approved

 

by the United States department of education under the Perkins act

 

shall be limited to those necessary to meet the requirements of the

 

state plan.

 

     (2) In developing and implementing audit and reporting

 

requirements, including those included in current and proposed

 

state plans under the Perkins act, the department of labor and

 

economic growth shall consult with community colleges, the

 

legislative auditor general, and independent auditors in an effort

 

to coordinate activities and minimize duplication of audit and

 

reporting requirements imposed on community colleges.

 

     (3) At least 30 days before submission of a new state plan to

 

the United States department of education for approval under the

 

Perkins act, the department of labor and economic growth shall

 

provide copies of the proposed plan to the members of the senate

 

and house appropriations subcommittees on community colleges for

 

their review and comment. Copies of the proposed plan shall be

 


provided to the senate and house fiscal agencies and the state

 

budget director at the same time that they are provided to the

 

senate and house subcommittees.

 

     (4) The Perkins grant application process and content shall be

 

streamlined to the extent possible.

 

     (5) As used in this section, "Perkins act" means the Carl D.

 

Perkins vocational and applied technology education act, 20 USC

 

2301 to 2415.

 

     Sec. 513. The department of treasury shall annually collect

 

and compile data on the tax revenue losses to community colleges

 

resulting from tax increment financing authorities (TIFA) and tax

 

abatements. The department of treasury shall produce a report

 

detailing the data. The report shall be completed and presented to

 

the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on community

 

colleges, the department of career development, and the department

 

of management and budget not later than March 1, 2006. The report

 

shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

 

     (a) Estimated revenue losses for each community college for

 

the calendar year 2005.

 

     (b) Confirmed revenue losses for each community college for

 

the calendar years 2003 and 2004.

 

     (c) Other requirements requested by the house and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on community colleges.

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3

 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH

 

PART 1


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

 

     Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article,

 

the amounts listed in this part are appropriated for the department

 

of community health for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006,

 

from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary

 

of the appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions.......... 6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........ 4,680.6

 

   Average population............................ 1,135.0

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ [9,879,064,600]

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers............................................        32,794,800

 

ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $ [9,846,269,800]

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................     5,283,772,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................       231,352,700

 

Total private revenues.................................        59,467,500

 

Merit award trust fund.................................        50,300,000

 

Tobacco settlement trust fund..........................        72,000,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................   [1,306,778,000]

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $ [2,842,599,600]

 

   Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTWIDE ADMINISTRATION (HEALTH)

 


   Full-time equated unclassified positions.......... 6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 220.0

 

Director and other unclassified--6.0 FTE positions..... $        556,500

 

Community health advisory council......................             7,000

 

Departmental administration and management--210.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................        21,726,800

 

Worker's compensation program..........................         8,558,700

 

Rent and building occupancy............................         8,700,400

 

Developmental disabilities council and projects--10.0

 

   FTE positions........................................         2,644,400

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     42,193,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        11,293,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................            35,900

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         3,376,300

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     27,488,200

 

   Sec. 103. MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES

 

ADMINISTRATION AND SPECIAL PROJECTS (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 112.0

 

Mental health/substance abuse program administration--

 

   111.0 FTE positions.................................. $     12,160,900

 

Gambling addiction--1.0 FTE position...................         3,500,000

 

Protection and advocacy services support...............           777,400

 

Mental health initiatives for older persons............         1,049,200

 

Community residential and support services.............         2,971,200

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

Highway safety projects................................           750,000

 

Federal and other special projects.....................         3,895,400

 

Family support subsidy.................................        17,935,000

 

Housing and support services...........................         7,237,200

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     50,276,300

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        32,202,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................           190,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         4,127,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     13,756,200

 

   Sec. 104. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE

 

SERVICES PROGRAMS (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions............ 9.5

 

Medicaid mental health services........................ $  1,569,659,400

 

Community mental health non-Medicaid services..........       292,598,300

 

Medicaid adult benefits waiver.........................        40,000,000

 

Multicultural services.................................       [3,563,800]

 

Medicaid substance abuse services......................        33,321,400

 

Respite services.......................................         1,000,000

 

CMHSP, purchase of state services contracts............       125,706,500

 

Civil service charges..................................         1,765,500

 

Federal mental health block grant--2.5 FTE positions...        15,335,900

 

State disability assistance program substance abuse

 

   services.............................................         2,259,800

 

Community substance abuse prevention, education, and

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

   treatment programs...................................        84,719,100

 

Children's waiver home care program....................        19,549,800

 

Omnibus reconciliation act implementation--7.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................       13,446,700

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ [2,202,926,200]

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................     1,037,378,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................        26,072,100

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................        90,533,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $ [1,048,941,900]

 

   Sec. 105. STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, CENTERS FOR

 

PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND FORENSIC

 

AND PRISON MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (HEALTH)

 

   Total average population...................... 1,135.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........ 2,976.2

 

Caro regional mental health center - psychiatric

 

   hospital - adult--475.7 FTE positions................ $     39,732,000

 

   Average population.............................. 205.0

 

Kalamazoo psychiatric hospital - adult--518.1 FTE

 

   positions............................................        40,697,600

 

   Average population.............................. 200.0

 

Walter P. Reuther psychiatric hospital - adult--444.6

 

   FTE positions........................................        40,403,500

 

   Average population.............................. 240.0

 

Hawthorn center - psychiatric hospital - children and

 


   adolescents--224.4 FTE positions.....................        20,202,600

 

   Average population............................... 66.0

 

Mount Pleasant center - developmental disabilities--

 

   496.0 FTE positions..................................        38,271,500

 

   Average population.............................. 199.0

 

Center for forensic psychiatry--493.0 FTE positions....        46,075,800

 

   Average population.............................. 225.0

 

Forensic mental health services provided to the

 

   department of corrections--313.4 FTE positions.......        31,570,800

 

Revenue recapture......................................           750,000

 

IDEA, federal special education........................           120,000

 

Special maintenance and equipment......................           335,300

 

Purchase of medical services for residents of

 

   hospitals and centers................................         2,045,600

 

Closed site, transition, and related costs--11.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................           621,200

 

Severance pay..........................................           216,900

 

Gifts and bequests for patient living and treatment

 

   environment..........................................         1,000,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    262,042,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Interdepartmental grant from the department of

 

   corrections..........................................        31,570,800

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        33,418,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 


CMHSP, purchase of state services contracts............       125,706,500

 

Other local revenues...................................        14,845,300

 

Total private revenues.................................         1,000,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         9,966,400

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     45,535,200

 

   Sec. 106.  PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 83.4

 

Public health administration--11.0 FTE positions....... $      1,448,400

 

Minority health grants and contracts...................           650,000

 

Vital records and health statistics--72.4 FTE

 

   positions............................................         7,317,600

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      9,416,000

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Interdepartmental grant from the department of human

 

   services.............................................           699,800

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................         2,730,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         4,821,200

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      1,164,200

 

   Sec. 107.  HEALTH POLICY, REGULATION, AND PROFESSIONS

 

(HEALTH)

 

Full-time equated classified positions.......... 395.2

 

Health systems administration--193.6 FTE positions..... $     20,202,800

 

Emergency medical services program state staff--8.5

 

   FTE positions........................................         1,322,400

 


Radiological health administration--25.0 FTE positions.         2,295,600

 

Substance abuse program administration--4.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................           423,800

 

Emergency medical services grants and services.........           702,900

 

Health professions--120.0 FTE positions................        13,273,400

 

Health policy, regulation, and professions

 

   administration--25.7 FTE positions...................         2,571,700

 

Nurse scholarship, education, and research program--

 

   2.0 FTE positions....................................           673,100

 

Certificate of need program administration--14.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................         1,645,600

 

Rural health services--1.0 FTE position................         1,251,900

 

Michigan essential health provider.....................         1,392,600

 

Primary care services--1.4 FTE positions...............       2,291,400

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     48,047,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Interdepartmental grant from treasury..................           110,800

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        19,194,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................           150,000

 

Total private revenues.................................           546,300

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................        21,396,800

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      6,648,900

 

   Sec. 108.  INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 49.0

 


AIDS prevention, testing, and care programs--12.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................ $     31,438,300

 

Immunization local agreements..........................        13,115,300

 

Immunization program management and field support--

 

   15.0 FTE positions...................................         1,644,800

 

Sexually transmitted disease control local agreements..         3,494,900

 

Sexually transmitted disease control management and

 

   field support--22.0 FTE positions....................         3,485,500

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     53,178,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        38,556,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................         3,250,500

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         7,291,600

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      4,080,200

 

   Sec. 109.  LABORATORY SERVICES (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 121.0

 

Bovine tuberculosis--2.0 FTE positions................. $        500,000

 

Laboratory services--119.0 FTE positions...............        14,975,300

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     15,475,300

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Interdepartmental grant from environmental quality.....           413,400

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................         3,008,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 


Total other state restricted revenues..................         5,154,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      6,898,600

 

   Sec. 110.  EPIDEMIOLOGY (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 127.5

 

AIDS surveillance and prevention program............... $      2,513,200

 

Asthma prevention and control--2.3 FTE positions.......         1,042,100

 

Bioterrorism preparedness--76.1 FTE positions..........        50,129,600

 

Epidemiology administration--41.1 FTE positions........         6,453,300

 

Newborn screening follow-up and treatment services--

 

   8.0 FTE positions....................................         3,565,900

 

Tuberculosis control and recalcitrant AIDS program.....           867,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     64,571,100

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        58,779,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................            25,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         3,750,700

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      2,015,800

 

   Sec. 111.  LOCAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND GRANTS

 

(HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions............ 7.0

 

Implementation of 1993 PA 133, MCL 333.17015........... $        100,000

 

Lead abatement program--7.0 FTE positions..............         1,755,800

 

Local health services..................................           220,000

 

Local public health operations.........................        35,468,400

 

Medical services cost reimbursement to local health

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

   departments..........................................         3,110,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     40,654,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................         4,623,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................           486,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     35,544,900

 

   Sec. 112.  CHRONIC DISEASE AND INJURY PREVENTION AND

 

HEALTH PROMOTION (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 51.5

 

African-American male health initiative................ $        106,700

 

AIDS and risk reduction clearinghouse and media

 

   campaign.............................................         1,576,000

 

Alzheimer's information network........................           150,000

 

Cancer prevention and control program--14.3 FTE

 

   positions............................................        12,174,800

 

Chronic disease prevention--1.0 FTE position...........       [3,816,800]

 

Diabetes and kidney program--9.1 FTE positions.........         3,644,000

 

Health education, promotion, and research programs--

 

   9.3 FTE positions....................................           696,500

 

Injury control intervention project--1.0 FTE position..           524,000

 

Public health traffic safety coordination--1.7 FTE

 

   positions............................................           583,200

 

Smoking prevention program--13.1 FTE positions.........         3,619,000

 

Tobacco tax collection and enforcement.................           610,000

 

Violence prevention--2.0 FTE positions.................         1,886,000

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $   [29,387,000]

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        19,572,100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................            85,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................       [8,645,100]

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      1,084,800

 

   Sec. 113.  FAMILY, MATERNAL, AND CHILDREN'S HEALTH

 

SERVICES (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 45.4

 

Childhood lead program--5.8 FTE positions.............. $      2,507,500

 

Dental programs........................................           335,400

 

Dental program for persons with developmental

 

   disabilities.........................................           151,000

 

Family, maternal, and children's health services

 

   administration--39.6 FTE positions...................         4,483,200

 

Family planning local agreements.......................        11,635,700

 

Local MCH services.....................................         7,018,100

 

Migrant health care....................................           272,200

 

Pediatric AIDS prevention and control..................         1,176,800

 

Pregnancy prevention program...........................           812,800

 

Prenatal care outreach and service delivery support....         3,049,300

 

School health and education programs...................           500,000

 

Special projects.......................................         4,994,900

 

Sudden infant death syndrome program...................           321,300

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     37,258,200

 


    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        31,128,100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         1,500,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      4,630,100

 

   Sec. 114.  WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN FOOD AND

 

NUTRITION PROGRAM (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 41.0

 

Women, infants, and children program administration

 

   and special projects--41.0 FTE positions............. $      6,355,800

 

Women, infants, and children program local agreements

 

   and food costs.......................................       179,272,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    185,627,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................       132,398,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................        53,229,800

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $              0

 

   Sec. 115.  CHILDREN'S SPECIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

 

(HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 43.0

 

Children's special health care services

 

   administration--43.0 FTE positions................... $      3,732,700

 

Amputee program........................................           184,600

 

Bequests for care and services.........................         1,889,100

 


Outreach and advocacy..................................         3,773,500

 

Conveyor contract......................................         1,235,300

 

Medical care and treatment.............................       208,668,600

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    219,483,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................       104,331,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................         1,000,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         2,450,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $    111,702,200

 

   Sec. 116.  OFFICE OF DRUG CONTROL POLICY (SAFETY)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 16.0

 

Drug control policy--16.0 FTE positions................ $      1,903,300

 

Anti-drug abuse grants.................................        24,970,300

 

Interdepartmental grant to judiciary for drug

 

   treatment courts.....................................         1,800,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     28,673,600

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        28,389,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $        284,400

 

   Sec. 117.  CRIME VICTIM SERVICES COMMISSION

 

(VULNERABLE)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 10.0

 

Grants administration services--10.0 FTE positions..... $      1,091,100

 


Justice assistance grants..............................        13,000,000

 

Crime victim rights services grants....................         9,655,300

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     23,746,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        14,623,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         9,122,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $              0

 

   Sec. 118.  OFFICE OF SERVICES TO THE AGING

 

(VULNERABLE)

 

Full-time equated classified positions........... 36.5

 

Commission (per diem $50.00)........................... $          9,500

 

Office of services to aging administration--36.5 FTE

 

   positions............................................         4,831,100

 

Community services.....................................        35,204,200

 

Nutrition services.....................................        37,290,500

 

Senior volunteer services..............................         5,624,900

 

Employment assistance..................................         2,818,300

 

Respite care program...................................         7,600,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     93,378,500

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        52,100,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................           105,000

 

Tobacco settlement trust fund..........................         5,000,000

 


Total other state restricted revenues..................         2,767,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     33,405,900

 

   Sec. 119.  MEDICAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (HEALTH)

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 336.4

 

Medical services administration--336.4 FTE positions... $     46,302,000

 

Facility inspection contract - labor and economic

 

   growth...............................................           132,800

 

MIChild administration.................................         4,327,800

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     50,762,600

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        37,295,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     13,466,900

 

   Sec. 120.  MEDICAL SERVICES (HEALTH)

 

Hospital services and therapy.......................... $  1,225,108,500

 

Hospital disproportionate share payments...............        50,000,000

 

Physician services.....................................       256,951,500

 

Medicare premium payments..............................       272,705,600

 

Pharmaceutical services................................       347,223,400

 

Home health services...................................        55,777,200

 

Transportation.........................................         8,738,300

 

Auxiliary medical services.............................      104,861,900

 

Ambulance services.....................................        12,727,900

 

Long-term care services................................     1,670,452,500

 

Elder prescription insurance coverage..................         3,900,000

 

Health plan services...................................     1,658,116,200

 


MIChild program........................................        39,994,400

 

Medicaid adult benefits waiver.........................        76,654,900

 

Maternal and child health..............................        20,279,500

 

Social services to the physically disabled.............         1,344,900

 

Federal Medicare pharmaceutical program................       174,855,500

 

County indigent care and third share plans.............        89,167,400

 

Subtotal basic medical services program................     6,068,859,600

 

School-based services..................................        68,621,100

 

Special adjustor and special DSH payments..............       253,689,500

 

Subtotal special medical services payments.............      322,310,600

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $  6,391,170,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................     3,604,351,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................        64,578,800

 

Merit award trust fund.................................        50,300,000

 

Tobacco settlement trust fund..........................        67,000,000

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................     1,128,400,200

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $  1,476,539,600

 

   Sec. 121.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HEALTH)

 

Information technology services and projects........... $     30,794,700

 

Michigan Medicaid information system...................               100

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     30,794,800

 

   Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................        18,396,100

 


 

House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         2,987,100

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      9,411,600

 

 

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

     Sec. 201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state

 

constitution of 1963, total state spending from state resources

 

under part 1 for fiscal year 2005-2006 is [$4,271,677,600.00] and

 

state spending from state resources to be paid to units of local

 

government for fiscal year 2005-2006 is [$1,104,751,500.00]. The

 

itemized statement below identifies appropriations from which

 

spending to local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH

 

MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

 

AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

 

Mental health initiatives for older persons............ $      1,049,200

 

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES PROGRAMS

 

State disability assistance program substance

 

    abuse services......................................         2,259,800

 

Community substance abuse prevention, education, and

 

    treatment programs..................................        18,290,500

 

Medicaid mental health services........................       655,317,100

 

Community mental health non-Medicaid services..........       312,098,300

 

Medicaid adult benefits waiver.........................        12,156,000

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

Multicultural services.................................       [3,563,800]

 

Medicaid substance abuse services......................        14,464,800

 

Respite services.......................................         1,000,000

 

Omnibus budget reconciliation act implementation.......         3,866,900

 

HEALTH POLICY, REGULATION AND PROFESSIONS

 

Health professions.....................................           275,000

 

INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL

 

AIDS prevention, testing and care programs.............         1,400,000

 

Immunization local agreements..........................         1,325,000

 

Sexually transmitted disease control local agreements..           421,800

 

LABORATORY SERVICES

 

Laboratory services....................................            54,000

 

LOCAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND GRANTS

 

Implementation of 1993 PA 133..........................             7,700

 

Local public health operations.........................        35,468,400

 

CHRONIC DISEASE AND INJURY PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION

 

Cancer prevention and control program..................           120,700

 

Diabetes and kidney program............................           295,800

 

Smoking prevention program.............................          452,100

 

FAMILY, MATERNAL, AND CHILDREN'S HEALTH SERVICES

 

Childhood lead program.................................            50,000

 

Prenatal care outreach and service delivery support....           636,000

 

School health and education programs...................           500,000

 

CHILDREN'S SPECIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

 

Outreach and advocacy..................................         1,283,200

 

MEDICAL SERVICES

 

Transportation.........................................         1,275,300

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

OFFICE OF SERVICES TO THE AGING

 

Community services.....................................        14,854,300

 

Nutrition services.....................................        11,280,300

 

Senior volunteer services..............................         1,153,400

 

Respite care program...................................         4,400,000

 

CRIME VICTIM SERVICES COMMISSION

 

Crime victim rights services grants....................        5,432,100

 

TOTAL OF PAYMENTS TO LOCAL UNITS

 

OF GOVERNMENT......................................... $  [1,104,751,500]

 

     Sec. 202. (1) The appropriations authorized under this article

 

are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

     (2) Funds for which the state is acting as the custodian or

 

agent are not subject to annual appropriation.

 

     Sec. 203. As used in this article:

 

     (a) "AIDS" means acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

 

     (b) "CMHSP" means a community mental health services program

 

as that term is defined in section 100a of the mental health code,

 

1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100a.

 

     (c) "Department" means the Michigan department of community

 

health.

 

     (d) "DSH" means disproportionate share hospital.

 

     (e) "EPIC" means elder prescription insurance coverage

 

program.

 

     (f) "EPSDT" means early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and

 

treatment.

 

     (g) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 


     (h) "GME" means graduate medical education.

 

     (i) "Health plan" means, at a minimum, an organization that

 

meets the criteria for delivering the comprehensive package of

 

services under the department's comprehensive health plan.

 

     (j) "HIV/AIDS" means human immunodeficiency virus/acquired

 

immune deficiency syndrome.

 

     (k) "HMO" means health maintenance organization.

 

     (l) "IDEA" means individual disability education act.

 

     (m) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

     (n) "MCH" means maternal and child health.

 

     (o) "MIChild" means the program described in section 1670.

 

     (p) "MSS/ISS" means maternal and infant support services.

 

     (q) "Specialty prepaid health plan" means a program described

 

in section 232b of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL

 

330.1232b.

 

     (r) "Title XVIII" means title XVIII of the social security

 

act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395hhh.

 

     (s) "Title XIX" means title XIX of the social security act, 42

 

USC 1396 to 1396v.

 

     (t) "Title XX" means title XX of the social security act, 49

 

USC 1397 to 1397f.

 

     (u) "WIC" means women, infants, and children supplemental

 

nutrition program.

 

     Sec. 204. The department of civil service shall bill the

 

department at the end of the first fiscal quarter for the 1% charge

 

authorized by section 5 of article XI of the state constitution of

 

1963. Payments shall be made for the total amount of the billing by

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

the end of the second fiscal quarter.

 

     Sec. 205. (1) A hiring freeze is imposed on the state

 

classified civil service. State departments and agencies are

 

prohibited from hiring any new state classified civil service

 

employees and prohibited from filling any vacant state classified

 

civil service positions. This hiring freeze does not apply to

 

internal transfers of classified employees from 1 position to

 

another within a department.

 

     (2) The state budget director may grant exceptions to this

 

hiring freeze when the state budget director believes that the

 

hiring freeze will result in rendering a state department or agency

 

unable to deliver basic services, cause loss of revenue to the

 

state, result in the inability of the state to receive federal

 

funds, or would necessitate additional expenditures that exceed any

 

savings from maintaining the vacancy. The state budget director

 

shall report quarterly to the chairpersons of the senate and house

 

of representatives standing committees on appropriations the number

 

of exceptions to the hiring freeze approved during the previous

 

quarter and the reasons to justify the exception.

 

     [Sec. 206. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1,

 

e is appropriated an amount not to exceed $100,000,000.00 for

 

ral contingency funds.  These funds are not available for

 

nditure until they have been transferred to another line item

 

article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

     (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

priated an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.00 for state

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

retricted contingency funds.  These funds are not available for

 

expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item

 

in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

     (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.00 for local

 

contingency funds.  These funds are not available for expenditure

 

until they have been transferred to another line item in this

 

article under section 393(2) of the anagement and budget act, 1984

 

 

 

     (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for private

 

contingency funds.  These funds are not available for expenditure

 

until they have been transferred to another line item in this

 

article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

                   ]PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

     Sec. 208. Unless otherwise specified, the department shall use

 

the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article.

 

This requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic

 

mail to the recipients identified for each reporting requirement or

 

it may include placement of reports on the Internet or Intranet

 

site.

 

     Sec. 209. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used

 

for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if

 

competitively priced and comparable quality American goods or

 

services, or both, are available.

 

     (2) Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the

 


purchase of out-of-state goods or services, or both, if

 

competitively priced and comparable quality Michigan goods or

 

services, or both, are available.

 

     Sec. 211. If the revenue collected by the department from fees

 

and collections exceeds the amount appropriated in part 1, the

 

revenue may be carried forward with the approval of the state

 

budget director into the subsequent fiscal year. The revenue

 

carried forward under this section shall be used as the first

 

source of funds in the subsequent fiscal year.

 

     Sec. 212. (1) From the amounts appropriated in part 1, no

 

greater than the following amounts are supported with federal

 

maternal and child health block grant, preventive health and health

 

services block grant, substance abuse block grant, healthy Michigan

 

fund, and Michigan health initiative funds:

 

     (a) Maternal and child health block grant.......... $    21,162,400

 

     (b) Preventive health and health services

 

block grant.............................................        5,617,500

 

     (c) Substance abuse block grant....................       60,399,600

 

     (d) Healthy Michigan fund..........................       43,512,700

 

     (e) Michigan health initiative.....................       10,121,200

 

     (2) On or before February 1, 2006, the department shall report

 

to the house of representatives and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community health, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director on the detailed name and

 

amounts of federal, restricted, private, and local sources of

 

revenue that support the appropriations in each of the line items

 

in part 1 of this article.

 


     (3) Upon the release of the fiscal year 2006-2007 executive

 

budget recommendation, the department shall report to the same

 

parties in subsection (2) on the amounts and detailed sources of

 

federal, restricted, private, and local revenue proposed to support

 

the total funds appropriated in each of the line items in part 1 of

 

the fiscal year 2006-2007 executive budget proposal.

 

     (4) The department shall provide to the same parties in

 

subsection (2) all revenue source detail for consolidated revenue

 

line item detail upon request to the department.

 

     Sec. 213. The state departments, agencies, and commissions

 

receiving tobacco tax funds from part 1 shall report by January 1,

 

2006, to the senate and house of representatives appropriations

 

committees, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget director on the following:

 

     (a) Detailed spending plan by appropriation line item

 

including description of programs.

 

     (b) Description of allocations or bid processes including need

 

or demand indicators used to determine allocations.

 

     (c) Eligibility criteria for program participation and maximum

 

benefit levels where applicable.

 

     (d) Outcome measures to be used to evaluate programs.

 

     (e) Any other information considered necessary by the house of

 

representatives or senate appropriations committees or the state

 

budget director.

 

     Sec. 214. The use of state-restricted tobacco tax revenue

 

received for the purpose of tobacco prevention, education, and

 

reduction efforts and deposited in the healthy Michigan fund shall

 


not be used for lobbying as defined in 1978 PA 472, MCL 4.411 to

 

4.431, and shall not be used in attempting to influence the

 

decisions of the legislature, the governor, or any state agency.

 

     Sec. 216. (1) In addition to funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

all programs and services, there is appropriated for write-offs of

 

accounts receivable, deferrals, and for prior year obligations in

 

excess of applicable prior year appropriations, an amount equal to

 

total write-offs and prior year obligations, but not to exceed

 

amounts available in prior year revenues.

 

     (2) The department's ability to satisfy appropriation

 

deductions in part 1 shall not be limited to collections and

 

accruals pertaining to services provided in fiscal year 2005-2006,

 

but shall also include reimbursements, refunds, adjustments, and

 

settlements from prior years.

 

     (3) The department shall report by March 15, 2006 to the house

 

of representatives and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health on all reimbursements, refunds, adjustments, and

 

settlements from prior years.

 

     Sec. 218. Basic health services for the purpose of part 23 of

 

the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.2301 to 333.2321, are:

 

immunizations, communicable disease control, sexually transmitted

 

disease control, tuberculosis control, prevention of gonorrhea eye

 

infection in newborns, screening newborns for the 8 conditions

 

listed in section 5431(1)(a) through (h) of the public health code,

 

1978 PA 368, MCL 333.5431, community health annex of the Michigan

 

emergency management plan, and prenatal care.

 

     Sec. 219. (1) The department may contract with the Michigan

 


public health institute for the design and implementation of

 

projects and for other public health related activities prescribed

 

in section 2611 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL

 

333.2611. The department may develop a master agreement with the

 

institute to carry out these purposes for up to a 3-year period.

 

The department shall report to the house of representatives and

 

senate appropriations subcommittees on community health, the house

 

and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on or

 

before November 1, 2005 and May 1, 2006 all of the following:

 

     (a) A detailed description of each funded project.

 

     (b) The amount allocated for each project, the appropriation

 

line item from which the allocation is funded, and the source of

 

financing for each project.

 

     (c) The expected project duration.

 

     (d) A detailed spending plan for each project, including a

 

list of all subgrantees and the amount allocated to each

 

subgrantee.

 

     (2) If a report required under subsection (1) is not received

 

by the house of representatives and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community health, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director on or before the date

 

specified for that report, the disbursement of funds to the

 

Michigan public health institute under this section shall stop. The

 

disbursement of those funds shall recommence when the overdue

 

report is received.

 

     (3) On or before September 30, 2006, the department shall

 

provide to the same parties listed in subsection (1) a copy of all

 


House Bill No. 4831 (H-1) as amended June 9, 2005

reports, studies, and publications produced by the Michigan public

 

health institute, its subcontractors, or the department with the

 

funds appropriated in part 1 and allocated to the Michigan public

 

health institute.

 

     [(4) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may

 

allocate a portion of general fund/general purpose funds to the

 

Michigan public health institute for contractual services in a

 

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total amount of not more than $1,691,100.00.

     Sec. 220. All contracts with the Michigan public health

 

institute funded with appropriations in part 1 shall include a

 

requirement that the Michigan public health institute submit to

 

financial and performance audits by the state auditor general of

 

projects funded with state appropriations.

 

     Sec. 223. The department of community health may establish and

 

collect fees for publications, videos and related materials,

 

conferences, and workshops. Collected fees shall be used to offset

 

expenditures to pay for printing and mailing costs of the

 

publications, videos and related materials, and costs of the

 

workshops and conferences. The costs shall not exceed fees

 

collected.

 

     Sec. 259. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

information technology, the department shall pay user fees to the

 

department of information technology for technology-related

 

services and projects. Such user fees shall be subject to

 

provisions of an interagency agreement between the department and

 

the department of information technology.

 

     Sec. 260. Amounts appropriated in part 1 for information

 


technology may be designated as work projects and carried forward

 

to support technology projects under the direction of the

 

department of information technology. Funds designated in this

 

manner are not available for expenditure until approved as work

 

projects under section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1451a.

 

     Sec. 261.  Funds appropriated in part 1 for the Medicaid

 

management information system upgrade are contingent upon approval

 

of an advanced planning document from the centers for Medicare and

 

Medicaid services.  If the necessary matching funds are identified

 

and legislatively transferred to this line item, the corresponding

 

federal Medicaid revenue shall be appropriated at a 90/10

 

federal/state match rate.  This appropriation may be designated as

 

a work project and carried forward to support completion of this

 

project.

 

     Sec. 264. Upon submission of a Medicaid waiver, a Medicaid

 

state plan amendment, or a similar proposal to the centers for

 

Medicare and Medicaid services, the department shall notify the

 

house of representatives and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health and the house and senate fiscal agencies of the

 

submission.

 

     Sec. 265. The departments and agencies receiving

 

appropriations in part 1 shall receive and retain copies of all

 

reports funded from appropriations in part 1. Federal and state

 

guidelines for short-term and long-term retention of records shall

 

be followed.

 

     Sec. 266. (1) Due to the current budgetary problems in this

 


state, out-of-state travel for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2006 shall be limited to situations in which 1 or more of the

 

following conditions apply:

 

     (a) The travel is required by legal mandate or court order or

 

for law enforcement purposes.

 

     (b) The travel is necessary to protect the health or safety of

 

Michigan citizens or visitors or to assist other states in similar

 

circumstances.

 

     (c) The travel is necessary to produce budgetary savings or to

 

increase state revenues, including protecting existing federal

 

funds or securing additional federal funds.

 

     (d) The travel is necessary to comply with federal

 

requirements.

 

     (e) The travel is necessary to secure specialized training for

 

staff that is not available within this state.

 

     (f) The travel is financed entirely by federal or nonstate

 

funds.

 

     (2) If out-of-state travel is necessary but does not meet 1 or

 

more of the conditions in subsection (1), the state budget director

 

may grant an exception to allow the travel. Any exceptions granted

 

by the state budget director shall be reported on a monthly basis

 

to the house of representatives and senate standing committees on

 

appropriations.

 

     (3) Not later than January 1 of each year, each department

 

shall prepare a travel report listing all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year that was funded in whole or in part with

 


funds appropriated in the department's budget. The report shall be

 

submitted to the chairs and members of the house of representatives 

 

and senate standing committees on appropriations, the fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director. The report shall include

 

the following information:

 

     (a) The name of each person receiving reimbursement for travel

 

outside this state or whose travel costs were paid by this state.

 

     (b) The destination of each travel occurrence.

 

     (c) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

     (d) A brief statement of the reason for each travel

 

occurrence.

 

     (e) The transportation and related costs of each travel

 

occurrence, including the proportion funded with state general

 

fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion funded with state

 

restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

     (f) A total of all out-of-state travel funded for the

 

immediately preceding fiscal year.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENTWIDE ADMINISTRATION

 

     Sec. 301. From funds appropriated for worker's compensation,

 

the department may make payments in lieu of worker's compensation

 

payments for wage and salary and related fringe benefits for

 

employees who return to work under limited duty assignments.

 

     Sec. 303. The department is prohibited from requiring first-

 

party payment from individuals or families with a taxable income of

 

$10,000.00 or less for mental health services for determinations

 


made in accordance with section 818 of the mental health code, 1974

 

PA 258, MCL 330.1818.

 

     Sec. 313. By November 1, 2005, the department shall report to

 

the house of representatives and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community health, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director on activities undertaken by

 

the department to address compulsive gambling.

 

 

 

MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AND SPECIAL

 

PROJECTS

 

     Sec. 350. The department may enter into a contract with the

 

protection and advocacy service, authorized under section 931 of

 

the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1931, or a similar

 

organization to provide legal services for purposes of gaining and

 

maintaining occupancy in a community living arrangement which is

 

under lease or contract with the department or a community mental

 

health services program to provide services to persons with mental

 

illness or developmental disability.

 

 

 

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES PROGRAMS

 

     Sec. 401. Funds appropriated in part 1 are intended to support

 

a system of comprehensive community mental health services under

 

the full authority and responsibility of local CMHSPs or specialty

 

prepaid health plans. The department shall ensure that each CMHSP

 

or specialty prepaid health plan provides all of the following:

 

     (a) A system of single entry and single exit.

 

     (b) A complete array of mental health services which shall

 


include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following

 

services: residential and other individualized living arrangements,

 

outpatient services, acute inpatient services, and long-term, 24-

 

hour inpatient care in a structured, secure environment.

 

     (c) The coordination of inpatient and outpatient hospital

 

services through agreements with state-operated psychiatric

 

hospitals, units, and centers in facilities owned or leased by the

 

state, and privately-owned hospitals, units, and centers licensed

 

by the state pursuant to sections 134 through 149b of the mental

 

health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1134 to 330.1149b.

 

     (d) Individualized plans of service that are sufficient to

 

meet the needs of individuals, including those discharged from

 

psychiatric hospitals or centers, and that ensure the full range of

 

recipient needs is addressed through the CMHSP's or specialty

 

prepaid health plan's program or through assistance with locating

 

and obtaining services to meet these needs.

 

     (e) A system of case management to monitor and ensure the

 

provision of services consistent with the individualized plan of

 

services or supports.

 

     (f) A system of continuous quality improvement.

 

     (g) A system to monitor and evaluate the mental health

 

services provided.

 

     (h) A system that serves at-risk and delinquent youth as

 

required under the provisions of the mental health code, 1974 PA

 

258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106.

 

     Sec. 402. (1) From funds appropriated in part 1, final

 

authorizations to CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans shall be

 


made upon the execution of contracts between the department and

 

CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans. The contracts shall

 

contain an approved plan and budget as well as policies and

 

procedures governing the obligations and responsibilities of both

 

parties to the contracts. Each contract with a CMHSP or specialty

 

prepaid health plan that the department is authorized to enter into

 

under this subsection shall include a provision that the contract

 

is not valid unless the total dollar obligation for all of the

 

contracts between the department and the CMHSPs or specialty

 

prepaid health plans entered into under this subsection for fiscal

 

year 2005-2006 does not exceed the amount of money appropriated in

 

part 1 for the contracts authorized under this subsection.

 

     (2) The department shall immediately report to the senate and

 

house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on community

 

health, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget

 

director if either of the following occurs:

 

     (a) Any new contracts with CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health

 

plans that would affect rates or expenditures are enacted.

 

     (b) Any amendments to contracts with CMHSPs or specialty

 

prepaid health plans that would affect rates or expenditures are

 

enacted.

 

     (3) The report required by subsection (2) shall include

 

information about the changes and their effects on rates and

 

expenditures.

 

     Sec. 403. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

multicultural services, the department shall ensure that CMHSPs or

 

specialty prepaid health plans continue contracts with

 


multicultural services providers.

 

     Sec. 404. (1) Not later than May 31 of each fiscal year, the

 

department shall provide a report on the community mental health

 

services programs to the members of the house of representatives

 

and senate appropriations subcommittees on community health, the

 

house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director

 

that includes the information required by this section.

 

     (2) The report shall contain information for each CMHSP or

 

specialty prepaid health plan and a statewide summary, each of

 

which shall include at least the following information:

 

     (a) A demographic description of service recipients which,

 

minimally, shall include reimbursement eligibility, client

 

population, age, ethnicity, housing arrangements, and diagnosis.

 

     (b) Per capita expenditures by client population group.

 

     (c) Financial information which, minimally, shall include a

 

description of funding authorized; expenditures by client group and

 

fund source; and cost information by service category, including

 

administration. Service category shall include all department

 

approved services.

 

     (d) Data describing service outcomes which shall include, but

 

not be limited to, an evaluation of consumer satisfaction, consumer

 

choice, and quality of life concerns including, but not limited to,

 

housing and employment.

 

     (e) The number of second opinions requested under the code and

 

the determination of any appeals.

 

     (f) An analysis of information provided by community mental

 

health service programs in response to the needs assessment

 


requirements of the mental health code, including information about

 

the number of persons in the service delivery system who have

 

requested and are clinically appropriate for different services.

 

     (g) Lapses and carryforwards during fiscal year 2004-2005 for

 

CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans.

 

     (h) Contracts for mental health services entered into by

 

CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans with providers, including

 

amount and rates, organized by type of service provided.

 

     (i) Information on the community mental health Medicaid

 

managed care program, including, but not limited to, both of the

 

following:

 

     (i) Expenditures by each CMHSP or specialty prepaid health plan

 

organized by Medicaid eligibility group, including per eligible

 

individual expenditure averages.

 

     (ii) Performance indicator information required to be submitted

 

to the department in the contracts with CMHSPs or specialty prepaid

 

health plans.

 

     (3) The department shall include data reporting requirements

 

listed in subsection (2) in the annual contract with each

 

individual CMHSP or specialty prepaid health plan.

 

     (4) The department shall take all reasonable actions to ensure

 

that the data required are complete and consistent among all CMHSPs

 

or specialty prepaid health plans.

 

     Sec. 405. It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

employee wage pass-through funded in previous years to the

 

community mental health services programs for direct care workers

 

in local residential settings and for paraprofessional and other

 


nonprofessional direct care workers in day programs, supported

 

employment, and other vocational programs shall continue to be paid

 

to direct care workers.

 

     Sec. 406. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the state

 

disability assistance substance abuse services program shall be

 

used to support per diem room and board payments in substance abuse

 

residential facilities. Eligibility of clients for the state

 

disability assistance substance abuse services program shall

 

include needy persons 18 years of age or older, or emancipated

 

minors, who reside in a substance abuse treatment center.

 

     (2) The department shall reimburse all licensed substance

 

abuse programs eligible to participate in the program at a rate

 

equivalent to that paid by the department of human services to

 

adult foster care providers. Programs accredited by department-

 

approved accrediting organizations shall be reimbursed at the

 

personal care rate, while all other eligible programs shall be

 

reimbursed at the domiciliary care rate.

 

     Sec. 407. (1) The amount appropriated in part 1 for substance

 

abuse prevention, education, and treatment grants shall be expended

 

for contracting with coordinating agencies. Coordinating agencies

 

shall work with the CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans to

 

coordinate the care and services provided to individuals with both

 

mental illness and substance abuse diagnoses.

 

     (2) The department shall establish a fee schedule for

 

coordinating agencies that provide substance abuse services and

 

charge participants in accordance with their ability to pay.

 

     Sec. 408. (1) By April 15, 2006, the department shall report

 


the following data from fiscal year 2004-2005 on substance abuse

 

prevention, education, and treatment programs to the senate and

 

house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on community

 

health, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget

 

office:

 

     (a) Expenditures stratified by coordinating agency, by central

 

diagnosis and referral agency, by fund source, by subcontractor, by

 

population served, and by service type. Additionally, data on

 

administrative expenditures by coordinating agency and by

 

subcontractor shall be reported.

 

     (b) Expenditures per state client, with data on the

 

distribution of expenditures reported using a histogram approach.

 

     (c) Number of services provided by central diagnosis and

 

referral agency, by subcontractor, and by service type.

 

Additionally, data on length of stay, referral source, and

 

participation in other state programs.

 

     (d) Collections from other first- or third-party payers,

 

private donations, or other state or local programs, by

 

coordinating agency, by subcontractor, by population served, and by

 

service type.

 

     (2) The department shall take all reasonable actions to ensure

 

that the required data reported are complete and consistent among

 

all coordinating agencies.

 

     Sec. 409. The funding in part 1 for substance abuse services

 

shall be distributed in a manner that provides priority to service

 

providers that furnish child care services to clients with

 

children.

 


     Sec. 410. The department shall assure that substance abuse

 

treatment is provided to applicants and recipients of public

 

assistance through the department of human services who are

 

required to obtain substance abuse treatment as a condition of

 

eligibility for public assistance.

 

     Sec. 411. (1) The department shall ensure that each contract

 

with a CMHSP or specialty prepaid health plan requires the CMHSP or

 

specialty prepaid health plan to implement programs to encourage

 

diversion of persons with serious mental illness, serious emotional

 

disturbance, or developmental disability from possible jail

 

incarceration when appropriate.

 

     (2) Each CMHSP or specialty prepaid health plan shall have

 

jail diversion services and shall work toward establishing working

 

relationships with representative staff of local law enforcement

 

agencies, including county prosecutors' offices, county sheriffs'

 

offices, county jails, municipal police agencies, municipal

 

detention facilities, and the courts. Written interagency

 

agreements describing what services each participating agency is

 

prepared to commit to the local jail diversion effort and the

 

procedures to be used by local law enforcement agencies to access

 

mental health jail diversion services are strongly encouraged.

 

     Sec. 412. The department shall contract directly with the

 

Salvation Army harbor light program to provide non-Medicaid

 

substance abuse services at not less than the amount contracted for

 

in fiscal year 2004-2005.

 

     Sec. 414. Medicaid substance abuse treatment services shall be

 

managed by selected CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans

 


pursuant to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services'

 

approval of Michigan's 1915(b) waiver request to implement a

 

managed care plan for specialized substance abuse services. The

 

selected CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans shall receive a

 

capitated payment on a per eligible per month basis to assure

 

provision of medically necessary substance abuse services to all

 

beneficiaries who require those services. The selected CMHSPs or

 

specialty prepaid health plans shall be responsible for the

 

reimbursement of claims for specialized substance abuse services.

 

The CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans that are not

 

coordinating agencies may continue to contract with a coordinating

 

agency. Any alternative arrangement must be based on client service

 

needs and have prior approval from the department.

 

     Sec. 418. On or before the tenth of each month, the department

 

shall report to the senate and house of representatives

 

appropriations subcommittees on community health, the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the amount

 

of funding paid to the CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans to

 

support the Medicaid managed mental health care program in that

 

month. The information shall include the total paid to each CMHSP

 

or specialty prepaid health plan, per capita rate paid for each

 

eligibility group for each CMHSP or specialty prepaid health plan,

 

and number of cases in each eligibility group for each CMHSP or

 

specialty prepaid health plan, and year-to-date summary of

 

eligibles and expenditures for the Medicaid managed mental health

 

care program.

 

     Sec. 423. The department shall work cooperatively with the

 


departments of human services, corrections, education, state

 

police, and military and veterans affairs to coordinate and improve

 

the delivery of substance abuse prevention, education, and

 

treatment programs within existing appropriations.

 

     Sec. 424. Each community mental health services program or

 

specialty prepaid health plan that contracts with the department to

 

provide services to the Medicaid population shall adhere to the

 

following timely claims processing and payment procedure for claims

 

submitted by health professionals and facilities:

 

     (a) A "clean claim" as described in section 111i of the social

 

welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.111i, must be paid within 45 days

 

after receipt of the claim by the community mental health services

 

program or specialty prepaid health plan. A clean claim that is not

 

paid within this time frame shall bear simple interest at a rate of

 

12% per annum.

 

     (b) A community mental health services program or specialty

 

prepaid health plan must state in writing to the health

 

professional or facility any defect in the claim within 30 days

 

after receipt of the claim.

 

     (c) A health professional and a health facility have 30 days

 

after receipt of a notice that a claim or a portion of a claim is

 

defective within which to correct the defect. The community mental

 

health services program or specialty prepaid health plan shall pay

 

the claim within 30 days after the defect is corrected.

 

     Sec. 425. By April 1, 2006, the department, in conjunction

 

with the department of corrections, shall report the following data

 

from fiscal year 2004-2005 on mental health and substance abuse

 


services to the house of representatives and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community health and corrections, the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office:

 

     (a) The number of prisoners receiving substance abuse

 

services, which shall include a description and breakdown of the

 

type of substance abuse services provided to prisoners.

 

     (b) The number of prisoners with a primary diagnosis of mental

 

illness and the number of such prisoners receiving mental health

 

services, which shall include a description and breakdown,

 

minimally encompassing the categories of inpatient, residential,

 

and outpatient care, of the type of mental health services provided

 

to those prisoners.

 

     (c) The number of prisoners with a primary diagnosis of mental

 

illness and receiving substance abuse services, which shall include

 

a description and breakdown, minimally encompassing the categories

 

of inpatient, residential, and outpatient care, of the type of

 

treatment provided to those prisoners.

 

     (d) Data indicating if prisoners receiving mental health

 

services for a primary diagnosis of mental illness were previously

 

hospitalized in a state psychiatric hospital for persons with

 

mental illness.

 

     (e) Data indicating if prisoners with a primary diagnosis of

 

mental illness and receiving substance abuse services were

 

previously hospitalized in a state psychiatric hospital for persons

 

with mental illness.

 

     Sec. 428. (1) Each CMHSP and affiliation of CMHSPs shall

 

provide, from internal resources, local funds to be used as a bona

 


fide part of the state match required under the Medicaid program in

 

order to increase capitation rates for CMHSPs and affiliations of

 

CMHSPs. These funds shall not include either state funds received

 

by a CMHSP for services provided to non-Medicaid recipients or the

 

state matching portion of the Medicaid capitation payments made to

 

a CMHSP or an affiliation of CMHSPs.

 

     (2) The distribution of the aforementioned increases in the

 

capitation payment rates, if any, shall be based on a formula

 

developed by a committee established by the department, including

 

representatives from CMHSPs or affiliations of CMHSPs and

 

department staff.

 

     Sec. 435. A county required under the provisions of the mental

 

health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106, to provide

 

matching funds to a CMHSP for mental health services rendered to

 

residents in its jurisdiction shall pay the matching funds in equal

 

installments on not less than a quarterly basis throughout the

 

fiscal year, with the first payment being made by October 1, 2005.

 

     Sec. 439. (1) It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

department, in conjunction with CMHSPs, support pilot projects that

 

facilitate the movement of adults with mental illness from state

 

psychiatric hospitals to community residential settings.

 

     (2) The purpose of the pilot projects is to encourage the

 

placement of persons with mental illness in community residential

 

settings who may require any of the following:

 

     (a) A secured and supervised living environment.

 

     (b) Assistance in taking prescribed medications.

 

     (c) Intensive case management services.

 


     (d) Assertive community treatment team services.

 

     (e) Alcohol or substance abuse treatment and counseling.

 

     (f) Individual or group therapy.

 

     (g) Day or partial day programming activities.

 

     (h) Vocational, educational, or self-help training or

 

activities.

 

     (i) Other services prescribed to treat a person's mental

 

illness to prevent the need for hospitalization.

 

     (3) The pilot projects described in this section shall be

 

completely voluntary.

 

     (4) The department shall provide semiannual reports to the

 

house of representatives and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health, the state budget office, and the house and senate

 

fiscal agencies as to any activities undertaken by the department

 

and CMHSPs for pilot projects implemented under this section.

 

     Sec. 442. (1) The department shall assure that persons

 

enrolled in the Medicaid adult benefits waiver program shall

 

receive mental health services under the priority population

 

sections of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to

 

330.2106.

 

     (2) Capitation payments to CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health

 

plans for persons who become enrolled in the Medicaid adult

 

benefits waiver program shall be made using the same rate

 

methodology as payments for the current Medicaid beneficiaries.

 

     (3) If enrollment in the Medicaid adult benefits waiver

 

program does not achieve expectations and the funding appropriated

 

for the Medicaid adult benefits waiver program for specialty

 


services is not expended, the general fund balance shall be

 

transferred back to the community mental health non-Medicaid

 

services line. The department shall report quarterly to the senate

 

and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health a summary of eligible expenditures for the

 

Medicaid adult benefits waiver program by CMHSPs or specialty

 

prepaid health plans.

 

     Sec. 450. The department shall continue a work group comprised

 

of CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans and departmental staff

 

to recommend strategies to streamline audit and reporting

 

requirements for CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans. The

 

department shall report on the recommendations of the work group by

 

March 31, 2006 to the house of representatives and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on community health, the house fiscal

 

agency, the senate fiscal agency, and the state budget director.

 

     Sec. 452. Unless otherwise authorized by law, the department

 

shall not implement retroactively any policy that would lead to a

 

negative financial impact on community mental health services

 

programs or prepaid inpatient health plans.

 

     Sec. 455. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for community

 

mental health non-Medicaid services, the department shall ensure

 

that for any payments or spending authorizations made to a CMHSP

 

established by a single charter county that has totally situated

 

within that county a city having a population of at least 500,000,

 

a total of no more than 3% of the aggregate payments or

 

authorization shall be expended by the CMHSP or by the county, or

 

both, for administrative costs or county central services costs

 


allocated by the county to the CMHSP. The department shall specify,

 

in its contracts with the CMHSP, the definition of allowable

 

administrative costs and the method for allocating those costs for

 

reporting purposes.

 

     Sec. 456. The prepaid inpatient health plans shall honor

 

consumer choice to the fullest extent possible when providing

 

Medicaid mental health services and support programs for

 

individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities, or

 

substance abuse issues. Consumer choices shall include skill

 

building assistance and work preparatory services provided in

 

accredited community based rehabilitation organizations, as well as

 

supported and integrated employment services. The prepaid inpatient

 

health plans shall not arbitrarily eliminate any choices from the

 

array of services available to consumers without reasonable

 

justification that those services are not in the consumer's best

 

interest.

 

     Sec. 457. The department shall assure that implementation of

 

the quality assurance assessment program for community mental

 

health prepaid inpatient health plans shall not result in any net

 

reduction in revenue for community mental health services. If the

 

quality assurance assessment program is not implemented, if it is

 

implemented and does not generate the anticipated revenue, or if it

 

is reduced or eliminated at a later date, the department shall

 

present a plan on how the projected general fund/general purpose

 

savings will be achieved to the house of representatives and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on community health.

 

     Sec. 458. By April 15, 2006, the department shall provide each

 


of the following to the house of representatives and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on community health, the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director:

 

     (a) An updated plan for implementing recommendations of the

 

Michigan mental health commission made in the commission's report

 

dated October 15, 2004.

 

     (b) A report that evaluates the cost-benefit of establishing

 

secure residential facilities of fewer than 17 beds for adults with

 

serious mental illness, modeled after such programming in Oregon or

 

other states.

 

     (c) In conjunction with the state court administrator's

 

office, a report that evaluates the cost-benefit of establishing a

 

specialized mental health court program that diverts adults with

 

serious mental illness alleged to have committed an offense deemed

 

nonserious into treatment prior to the filing of any charges.

 

     Sec. 459. (1) If a community mental health services program,

 

currently established as a community mental health agency under MCL

 

330.1204, is required by statute to become a community mental

 

health authority by a specified date in order to be eligible to

 

continue to contract with the department of community health as a

 

specialty prepaid health plan, or to continue to receive state

 

financial support as a community mental health services program,

 

the department of community health shall monitor the progress of

 

the community mental health services program to ensure that it is

 

able to properly operate as a community mental health authority by

 

the required specified date. In carrying out its monitoring

 

activities, the department of community health may require such

 


plans, reports, and other evidence from the community mental health

 

services program that it deems necessary to properly monitor and

 

evaluate the progress of the community mental health services

 

program toward the establishment and operation of a community

 

mental health authority. Such plans, reports, and evidence shall

 

include, at the minimum, the following:

 

     (a) A copy of the enabling resolution adopted by the board of

 

commissioners creating the authority, addressing the required

 

provisions set forth in MCL 330.1205, and duly filed with the

 

secretary of state and the county clerk of the county establishing

 

the authority.

 

     (b) A detailed transition plan, describing how the community

 

mental health services program proposes to carry out

 

administrative, personnel, finance, accounting, management

 

information, data reporting, regulatory compliance, quality

 

assurance, recipient rights, clinical services, and any other

 

managerial tasks or activities necessary for the successful

 

operation of a community mental health authority.

 

     (2) If the department of community health determines that, in

 

its judgment, the community mental health services program is not

 

making sufficient progress to ensure a functioning community mental

 

health authority by the date specified in statute, the department

 

of community health may withhold such current year appropriated

 

funds as it deems appropriate from the community mental health

 

services program to assure that the department of community health

 

has sufficient capacity to directly operate necessary programs and

 

services within the county should the community mental health

 


authority fail to become fully operational on the required

 

specified date.

 

 

 

STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, CENTERS FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL

 

DISABILITIES, AND FORENSIC AND PRISON MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

     Sec. 601. (1) In funding of staff in the financial support

 

division, reimbursement, and billing and collection sections,

 

priority shall be given to obtaining third-party payments for

 

services. Collection from individual recipients of services and

 

their families shall be handled in a sensitive and nonharassing

 

manner.

 

     (2) The department shall continue a revenue recapture project

 

to generate additional revenues from third parties related to cases

 

that have been closed or are inactive. Revenues collected through

 

project efforts are appropriated to the department for departmental

 

costs and contractual fees associated with these retroactive

 

collections and to improve ongoing departmental reimbursement

 

management functions.

 

     Sec. 602. Unexpended and unencumbered amounts and accompanying

 

expenditure authorizations up to $1,000,000.00 remaining on

 

September 30, 2006 from pay telephone revenues and the amounts

 

appropriated in part 1 for gifts and bequests for patient living

 

and treatment environments shall be carried forward for 1 fiscal

 

year. The purpose of gifts and bequests for patient living and

 

treatment environments is to use additional private funds to

 

provide specific enhancements for individuals residing at state-

 

operated facilities. Use of the gifts and bequests shall be

 


consistent with the stipulation of the donor. The expected

 

completion date for the use of gifts and bequests donations is

 

within 3 years unless otherwise stipulated by the donor.

 

     Sec. 603. The funds appropriated in part 1 for forensic mental

 

health services provided to the department of corrections are in

 

accordance with the interdepartmental plan developed in cooperation

 

with the department of corrections. The department is authorized to

 

receive and expend funds from the department of corrections in

 

addition to the appropriations in part 1 to fulfill the obligations

 

outlined in the interdepartmental agreements.

 

     Sec. 604. (1) The CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans

 

shall provide semiannual reports to the department on the following

 

information:

 

     (a) The number of days of care purchased from state hospitals

 

and centers.

 

     (b) The number of days of care purchased from private

 

hospitals in lieu of purchasing days of care from state hospitals

 

and centers.

 

     (c) The number and type of alternative placements to state

 

hospitals and centers other than private hospitals.

 

     (d) Waiting lists for placements in state hospitals and

 

centers.

 

     (2) The department shall semiannually report the information

 

in subsection (1) to the house of representatives and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on community health, the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.

 

     Sec. 605. (1) The department shall not implement any closures

 


or consolidations of state hospitals, centers, or agencies until

 

CMHSPs or specialty prepaid health plans have programs and services

 

in place for those persons currently in those facilities and a plan

 

for service provision for those persons who would have been

 

admitted to those facilities.

 

     (2) All closures or consolidations are dependent upon adequate

 

department-approved CMHSP plans that include a discharge and

 

aftercare plan for each person currently in the facility. A

 

discharge and aftercare plan shall address the person's housing

 

needs. A homeless shelter or similar temporary shelter arrangements

 

are inadequate to meet the person's housing needs.

 

     (3) Four months after the certification of closure required in

 

section 19(6) of the state employees' retirement act, 1943 PA 240,

 

MCL 38.19, the department shall provide a closure plan to the house

 

of representatives and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health and the state budget director.

 

     (4) Upon the closure of state-run operations and after

 

transitional costs have been paid, the remaining balances of funds

 

appropriated for that operation shall be transferred to CMHSPs or

 

specialty prepaid health plans responsible for providing services

 

for persons previously served by the operations.

 

     Sec. 606. The department may collect revenue for patient

 

reimbursement from first- and third-party payers, including

 

Medicaid and local county CMHSP payers, to cover the cost of

 

placement in state hospitals and centers. The department is

 

authorized to adjust financing sources for patient reimbursement

 

based on actual revenues earned. If the revenue collected exceeds

 


current year expenditures, the revenue may be carried forward with

 

approval of the state budget director. The revenue carried forward

 

shall be used as a first source of funds in the subsequent year.

 

 

 

PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

 

     Sec. 650. The department shall communicate the annual public

 

health consumption advisory for sportfish. The department shall, at

 

a minimum, post the advisory on the Internet and make the

 

information in the advisory available to the clients of the women,

 

infants, and children special supplemental nutrition program.

 

     Sec. 651. The funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be

 

expended for a surgeon general position.

 

 

 

HEALTH POLICY, REGULATION AND PROFESSIONS

 

     Sec. 704. The department shall continue to work with grantees

 

supported through the appropriation in part 1 for emergency medical

 

services grants and contracts to ensure that a sufficient number of

 

qualified emergency medical services personnel exist to serve rural

 

areas of the state.

 

     Sec. 705. The department shall post on the Internet the

 

executive summary of the latest inspection for each licensed

 

nursing home.

 

     Sec. 706. When hiring any new nursing home inspectors funded

 

through appropriations in part 1, the department shall make every

 

effort to hire individuals with past experience in the long-term

 

care industry.

 

     Sec. 707. The funds appropriated in part 1 for the nurse

 


scholarship program, established in section 16315 of the public

 

health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16315, shall be used to increase

 

the number of nurses practicing in Michigan. The board of nursing

 

is encouraged to structure scholarships funded under this article

 

in a manner that rewards recipients who intend to practice nursing

 

in Michigan. In addition, the department and the board of nursing

 

shall work cooperatively with the Michigan higher education

 

assistance authority to coordinate scholarship assistance with

 

scholarships provided pursuant to the Michigan nursing scholarship

 

act, 2002 PA 591, MCL 390.1181 to 390.1189.

 

     Sec. 708. Nursing facilities shall report in the quarterly

 

staff report to the department, the total patient care hours

 

provided each month, by state licensure and certification

 

classification, and the percentage of pool staff, by state

 

licensure and certification classification, used each month during

 

the preceding quarter. The department shall make available to the

 

public, the quarterly staff report compiled for all facilities

 

including the total patient care hours and the percentage of pool

 

staff used, by classification.

 

     Sec. 709. The funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan

 

essential health care provider program may also provide loan

 

repayment for dentists that fit the criteria established by part 27

 

of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.2701 to 333.2727.

 

     Sec. 710. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for primary

 

care services, an amount not to exceed $2,296,000.00 is

 

appropriated to enhance the service capacity of the federally

 

qualified health centers and other health centers which are similar

 


to federally qualified health centers.

 

     Sec. 711. The department may make available to interested

 

entities customized listings of nonconfidential information in its

 

possession, such as names and addresses of licensees. The

 

department may establish and collect a reasonable charge to provide

 

this service. The revenue received from this service shall be used

 

to offset expenses to provide the service. Any balance of this

 

revenue collected and unexpended at the end of the fiscal year

 

shall revert to the appropriate restricted fund.

 

 

 

INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL

 

     Sec. 801. In the expenditure of funds appropriated in part 1

 

for AIDS programs, the department and its subcontractors shall

 

ensure that adolescents receive priority for prevention, education,

 

and outreach services.

 

     Sec. 802. In developing and implementing AIDS provider

 

education activities, the department may provide funding to the

 

Michigan state medical society to serve as lead agency to convene a

 

consortium of health care providers, to design needed educational

 

efforts, to fund other statewide provider groups, and to assure

 

implementation of these efforts, in accordance with a plan approved

 

by the department.

 

     Sec. 803. The department shall continue the AIDS drug

 

assistance program maintaining the prior year eligibility criteria

 

and drug formulary. This section is not intended to prohibit the

 

department from providing assistance for improved AIDS treatment

 

medications.

 


 

 

LOCAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND GRANTS

 

     Sec. 901. The amount appropriated in part 1 for implementation

 

of the 1993 amendments to sections 9161, 16221, 16226, 17014,

 

17015, and 17515 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL

 

333.9161, 333.16221, 333.16226, 333.17014, 333.17015, and

 

333.17515, shall reimburse local health departments for costs

 

incurred related to implementation of section 17015(18) of the

 

public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17015.

 

     Sec. 902. If a county that has participated in a district

 

health department or an associated arrangement with other local

 

health departments takes action to cease to participate in such an

 

arrangement after October 1, 2005, the department shall have the

 

authority to assess a penalty from the local health department's

 

operational accounts in an amount equal to no more than 5% of the

 

local health department's local public health operations funding.

 

This penalty shall only be assessed to the local county that

 

requests the dissolution of the health department.

 

     Sec. 903. The department shall provide a report annually to

 

the house of representatives and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community health, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director on the expenditures and

 

activities undertaken by the lead abatement program. The report

 

shall include, but is not limited to, a funding allocation

 

schedule, expenditures by category of expenditure and by

 

subcontractor, revenues received, description of program elements,

 

and description of program accomplishments and progress.

 


     Sec. 904. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for local public

 

health operations shall be prospectively allocated to local health

 

departments to support immunizations, infectious disease control,

 

sexually transmitted disease control and prevention, food

 

protection, public water supply, private groundwater supply, and

 

on-site sewage management. Food protection shall be provided in

 

consultation with the Michigan department of agriculture. Public

 

water supply, private groundwater supply, and on-site sewage

 

management shall be provided in consultation with the Michigan

 

department of environmental quality.

 

     (2) Local public health departments will be held to

 

contractual standards for the services in subsection (1).

 

     (3) Distributions in subsection (1) shall be made only to

 

counties that maintain local spending in fiscal year 2005-2006 of

 

at least the amount expended in fiscal year 1992-1993 for the

 

services described in subsection (1).

 

     (4) By April 1, 2006, the department shall make available upon

 

request a report to the senate or house of representatives

 

appropriations subcommittee on community health, the senate or

 

house fiscal agency, or the state budget director on the planned

 

allocation of the funds appropriated for local public health

 

operations.

 

 

 

CHRONIC DISEASE AND INJURY PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION

 

     Sec. 1003. Funds appropriated in part 1 for the Alzheimer's

 

information network shall be used to provide information and

 

referral services through regional networks for persons with

 


Alzheimer's disease or related disorders, their families, and

 

health care providers.

 

     Sec. 1006. In spending the funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

the smoking prevention program, priority shall be given to

 

prevention and smoking cessation programs for pregnant women, women

 

with young children, and adolescents.

 

     Sec. 1007. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for violence

 

prevention shall be used for, but not be limited to, the following:

 

     (a) Programs aimed at the prevention of spouse, partner, or

 

child abuse and rape.

 

     (b) Programs aimed at the prevention of workplace violence.

 

     (2) In awarding grants from the amounts appropriated in part 1

 

for violence prevention, the department shall give equal

 

consideration to public and private nonprofit applicants.

 

     (3) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for violence

 

prevention, the department may include local school districts as

 

recipients of the funds for family violence prevention programs.

 

     Sec. 1009. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

diabetes and kidney program, a portion of the funds may be

 

allocated to the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan for kidney

 

disease prevention programming including early identification and

 

education programs and kidney disease prevention demonstration

 

projects.

 

     Sec. 1019. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for chronic

 

disease prevention, $50,000.00 shall be allocated for stroke

 

prevention, education, and outreach. The objectives of the program

 

shall include education to assist persons in identifying risk

 


factors, and education to assist persons in the early

 

identification of the occurrence of a stroke in order to minimize

 

stroke damage.

 

 

 

FAMILY, MATERNAL, AND CHILDREN'S HEALTH SERVICES

 

     Sec. 1101. The department shall review the basis for the

 

distribution of funds to local health departments and other public

 

and private agencies for the women, infants, and children food

 

supplement program; family planning; and prenatal care outreach and

 

service delivery support program and indicate the basis upon which

 

any projected underexpenditures by local public and private

 

agencies shall be reallocated to other local agencies that

 

demonstrate need.

 

     Sec. 1104. Before April 1, 2006, the department shall submit a

 

report to the house and senate fiscal agencies and the state budget

 

director on planned allocations from the amounts appropriated in

 

part 1 for local MCH services, prenatal care outreach and service

 

delivery support, family planning local agreements, and pregnancy

 

prevention programs. Using applicable federal definitions, the

 

report shall include information on all of the following:

 

     (a) Funding allocations.

 

     (b) Actual number of women, children, and/or adolescents

 

served and amounts expended for each group for the fiscal year

 

2004-2005.

 

     Sec. 1105. For all programs for which an appropriation is made

 

in part 1, the department shall contract with those local agencies

 

best able to serve clients. Factors to be used by the department in

 


evaluating agencies under this section shall include ability to

 

serve high-risk population groups; ability to serve low-income

 

clients, where applicable; availability of, and access to, service

 

sites; management efficiency; and ability to meet federal

 

standards, when applicable.

 

     Sec. 1106. Each family planning program receiving federal

 

title X family planning funds shall be in compliance with all

 

performance and quality assurance indicators that the United States

 

bureau of community health services specifies in the family

 

planning annual report. An agency not in compliance with the

 

indicators shall not receive supplemental or reallocated funds.

 

     Sec. 1106a. (1) Federal abstinence money expended in part 1

 

for the purpose of promoting abstinence education shall provide

 

abstinence education to teenagers most likely to engage in high-

 

risk behavior as their primary focus, and may include programs that

 

include 9- to 17-year-olds. Programs funded must meet all of the

 

following guidelines:

 

     (a) Teaches the gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual

 

activity.

 

     (b) Teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside of

 

marriage as the expected standard for all school-age children.

 

     (c) Teaches that abstinence is the only certain way to avoid

 

out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other

 

health problems.

 

     (d) Teaches that a monogamous relationship in the context of

 

marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity.

 

     (e) Teaches that sexual activity outside of marriage is likely

 


to have harmful effects.

 

     (f) Teaches that bearing children out of wedlock is likely to

 

have harmful consequences.

 

     (g) Teaches young people how to avoid sexual advances and how

 

alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances.

 

     (h) Teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency

 

before engaging in sexual activity.

 

     (2) Coalitions, organizations, and programs that do not

 

provide contraceptives to minors and demonstrate efforts to include

 

parental involvement as a means of reducing the risk of teens

 

becoming pregnant shall be given priority in the allocations of

 

funds.

 

     (3) Programs and organizations that meet the guidelines of

 

subsection (1) and criteria of subsection (2) shall have the option

 

of receiving all or part of their funds directly from the

 

department of community health.

 

     Sec. 1107. Of the amount appropriated in part 1 for prenatal

 

care outreach and service delivery support, not more than 9% shall

 

be expended for local administration, data processing, and

 

evaluation.

 

     Sec. 1108. The funds appropriated in part 1 for pregnancy

 

prevention programs shall not be used to provide abortion

 

counseling, referrals, or services.

 

     Sec. 1110. Agencies that currently receive pregnancy

 

prevention funds and either receive or are eligible for other

 

family planning funds shall have the option of receiving all of

 

their family planning funds directly from the department of

 


community health and be designated as delegate agencies.

 

     Sec. 1111. The department shall allocate no less than 88% of

 

the funds appropriated in part 1 for family planning local

 

agreements and the pregnancy prevention program for the direct

 

provision of family planning/pregnancy prevention services.

 

     Sec. 1112. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prenatal

 

care outreach and service delivery support, the department shall

 

allocate at least $1,000,000.00 to communities with high infant

 

mortality rates.

 

     Sec. 1113. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for special

 

projects, $210,000.00 shall be allocated to free health clinics

 

operating in the state. The department shall work with Free Clinics

 

of Michigan to determine an equitable distribution of funding. For

 

the purpose of this appropriation, free health clinics are

 

nonprofit organizations that use volunteer health professionals to

 

provide care to uninsured individuals.

 

     Sec. 1114. (1) The director shall immediately seek any federal

 

waivers necessary to comply with this section for the current

 

project period and shall include the requirements of this section

 

in future federal family planning and pregnancy prevention project

 

grant applications. If the necessary waivers are not obtained, this

 

section shall not be implemented. If the necessary waivers are

 

obtained, this section shall be implemented immediately for any

 

unrestricted family planning or pregnancy prevention funds.

 

     (2) The department shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Take appropriate measures to ensure that family planning

 

and pregnancy prevention funds are used only for the purpose of

 


protecting and promoting the public health.

 

     (b) Take precautions to ensure that family planning and

 

pregnancy prevention funds are not used in a way that may promote

 

or encourage sexual activity outside of marriage.

 

     (c) Require every service provider to discourage sexual

 

activity outside of marriage by emphasizing the increased health

 

risks and fiscal implications of nonmarital sexual activity to the

 

individual and to the state.

 

     (3) In order to comply with state and federal mandates on

 

abortion options counseling and referrals, the department shall do

 

all of the following with regard to family planning and pregnancy

 

prevention funding:

 

     (a) Ensure that state and federal funds that have conflicting

 

mandates regarding abortion counseling and referral services are

 

not commingled.

 

     (b) Give priority consideration to agencies, organizations,

 

facilities, or service providers that have a clearly stated policy

 

either to offer, or to refuse to offer, abortion options counseling

 

and referrals and that are seeking either state or federal family

 

planning and pregnancy prevention funding but not both state and

 

federal funding.

 

     (c) Require agencies, organizations, facilities, or service

 

providers that seek both federal and state family planning and

 

pregnancy prevention funding to submit separate funding requests

 

for state and federal funds, to ensure that state and federal funds

 

are not commingled, and to present a clear explanation to the

 

department on how abortion counseling and referral services will

 


comply with conflicting state and federal laws.

 

     (4) The department shall require any agency, organization,

 

facility, or service provider that receives family planning or

 

pregnancy prevention funding to increase male participation rates

 

annually. The department may provide exemptions to programs,

 

agencies, facilities, or service providers that target female users

 

only. The statewide participation rate by males shall be no less

 

than 5% by October 1, 2008, 10% by October 1, 2010, 15% by October

 

1, 2012, and 20% by October 1, 2015. The department shall deny

 

funding to any agency, organization, facility, or service provider

 

that fails to increase male participation rates for 2 consecutive

 

years. If the director is unable to receive a federal waiver to

 

comply with this requirement for the current project period, the

 

male participation targets shall commence 3 years from the

 

beginning date of the next project period.

 

     (5) Beginning January 1, 2007, the department shall determine,

 

and publish for the public, the costs incurred for each of the

 

following including a breakdown of the federal funds, state funds,

 

public funds, money paid by a third party payer, and any other

 

source of funding used to cover those costs:

 

     (a) The annual costs associated with providing family

 

planning, pregnancy prevention, and sexually transmitted disease

 

prevention services to unmarried individuals.

 

     (b) The annual costs associated with providing family

 

planning, pregnancy prevention, and sexually transmitted disease

 

prevention services to married individuals.

 

     (c) The annual costs incurred to treat unmarried individuals

 


who have contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

 

     (d) The annual costs incurred in providing prenatal and

 

pregnancy related health care services to unmarried individuals.

 

     (6) In order to promote family participation in family

 

planning and pregnancy prevention, as required by federal

 

guidelines, at least 50% of the funding expended for informational

 

and educational programs designed to achieve community awareness or

 

understanding of services available to minors under the age of 18

 

shall be directed to the parents of the targeted minors. Funds

 

shall not be expended to support the public display or distribution

 

of a family planning drug or device where minors are likely to be

 

present unless parents are given clear notice of the display and

 

distribution.

 

     Sec. 1129. The department shall provide a report annually to

 

the house of representatives and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community health, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director on the number of children

 

with elevated blood lead levels from information available to the

 

department. The report shall provide the information by county,

 

shall include the level of blood lead reported, and shall indicate

 

the sources of the information.

 

     Sec. 1133. The department shall release infant mortality rate

 

data to all local public health departments no later than 48 hours

 

prior to releasing infant mortality rate data to the public.

 

     Sec. 1135. (1) Provision of the school health education

 

curriculum, such as the Michigan model or another comprehensive

 

school health education curriculum, shall be in accordance with the

 


health education goals established by the Michigan model for the

 

comprehensive school health education state steering committee. The

 

state steering committee shall be comprised of a representative

 

from each of the following offices and departments:

 

     (a) The department of education.

 

     (b) The department of community health.

 

     (c) The health administration in the department of community

 

health.

 

     (d) The bureau of mental health and substance abuse services

 

in the department of community health.

 

     (e) The department of human services.

 

     (f) The department of state police.

 

     (2) Upon written or oral request, a pupil not less than 18

 

years of age or a parent or legal guardian of a pupil less than 18

 

years of age, within a reasonable period of time after the request

 

is made, shall be informed of the content of a course in the health

 

education curriculum and may examine textbooks and other classroom

 

materials that are provided to the pupil or materials that are

 

presented to the pupil in the classroom. This subsection does not

 

require a school board to permit pupil or parental examination of

 

test questions and answers, scoring keys, or other examination

 

instruments or data used to administer an academic examination.

 

 

 

WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN FOOD AND NUTRITION PROGRAM

 

     Sec. 1151. The department may work with local participating

 

agencies to define local annual contributions for the farmer's

 

market nutrition program, project FRESH, to enable the department

 


to request federal matching funds based on local commitment of

 

funds.

 

 

 

CHILDREN'S SPECIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

 

     Sec. 1201. Funds appropriated in part 1 for medical care and

 

treatment of children with special health care needs shall be paid

 

according to reimbursement policies determined by the Michigan

 

medical services program. Exceptions to these policies may be taken

 

with the prior approval of the state budget director.

 

     Sec. 1202. The department may do 1 or more of the following:

 

     (a) Provide special formula for eligible clients with

 

specified metabolic and allergic disorders.

 

     (b) Provide medical care and treatment to eligible patients

 

with cystic fibrosis who are 21 years of age or older.

 

     (c) Provide genetic diagnostic and counseling services for

 

eligible families.

 

     (d) Provide medical care and treatment to eligible patients

 

with hereditary coagulation defects, commonly known as hemophilia,

 

who are 21 years of age or older.

 

     Sec. 1203. All children who are determined medically eligible

 

for the children's special health care services program shall be

 

referred to the appropriate locally-based services program in their

 

community.

 

 

 

OFFICE OF DRUG CONTROL POLICY

 

     Sec. 1250. In addition to the $1,800,000.00 in Byrne formula

 

grant program funding the department provides to local drug

 


treatment courts, the department shall provide $1,800,000.00 in

 

Byrne formula grant program funding to the judiciary by

 

interdepartmental grant.

 

 

 

OFFICE OF SERVICES TO THE AGING

 

     Sec. 1401. The appropriation in part 1 to the office of

 

services to the aging, for community and nutrition services and

 

home services, shall be restricted to eligible individuals at least

 

60 years of age who fail to qualify for home care services under

 

title XVIII, XIX, or XX.

 

     Sec. 1403. The office of services to the aging shall require

 

each region to report to the office of services to the aging home

 

delivered meals waiting lists based upon standard criteria.

 

Determining criteria shall include all of the following:

 

     (a) The recipient's degree of frailty.

 

     (b) The recipient's inability to prepare his or her own meals

 

safely.

 

     (c) Whether the recipient has another care provider available.

 

     (d) Any other qualifications normally necessary for the

 

recipient to receive home delivered meals.

 

     Sec. 1404. The area agencies and local providers may receive

 

and expend fees for the provision of day care, care management,

 

respite care, and certain eligible home and community-based

 

services. The fees shall be based on a sliding scale, taking client

 

income into consideration. The fees shall be used to expand

 

services.

 

     Sec. 1406. The appropriation of $5,000,000.00 of tobacco

 


settlement funds to the office of services to the aging for the

 

respite care program shall be allocated in accordance with a long-

 

term care plan developed by the long-term care working group

 

established in section 1657 of 1998 PA 336 upon implementation of

 

the plan. The use of the funds shall be for direct respite care or

 

adult respite care center services. Not more than 9% of the amount

 

allocated under this section shall be expended for administration

 

and administrative purposes.

 

     Sec. 1413. The legislature affirms the commitment to locally-

 

based services. The legislature supports the role of local county

 

board of commissioners in the approval of area agency on aging

 

plans. The legislature supports choice and the right of local

 

counties to change membership in the area agencies on aging if the

 

change is to an area agency on aging that is contiguous to that

 

county. The legislature supports the office of services to the

 

aging working with others to provide training to commissions to

 

better understand and advocate for aging issues. It is the intent

 

of the legislature to prohibit area agencies on aging from

 

providing direct services, including home and community-based

 

waiver services. The legislature's intent in this section is

 

conditioned on compliance with federal and state laws, rules, and

 

policies.

 

     Sec. 1416. The legislature affirms the commitment to provide

 

in-home services, resources, and assistance for the frail elderly

 

who are not being served by the Medicaid home and community-based

 

services waiver program.

 

 

 


MEDICAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

 

     Sec. 1501. Contingent upon recoveries of Medicaid managed care

 

and fee-for-service payments as noted in the auditor general's

 

performance audit of the medical services administration published

 

April 2005, $7,600,000.00, of which $3,800,000.00 is general

 

fund/general purpose funds, may be authorized within the medical

 

services administration line.

 

 

 

MEDICAL SERVICES

 

     Sec. 1601. The cost of remedial services incurred by residents

 

of licensed adult foster care homes and licensed homes for the aged

 

shall be used in determining financial eligibility for the

 

medically needy. Remedial services include basic self-care and

 

rehabilitation training for a resident.

 

     Sec. 1602. Medical services shall be provided to elderly and

 

disabled persons with incomes less than or equal to 100% of the

 

official poverty level, pursuant to the state's option to elect

 

such coverage set out at section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii) and (m) of title

 

XIX, 42 USC 1396a.

 

     Sec. 1603. (1) The department may establish a program for

 

persons to purchase medical coverage at a rate determined by the

 

department.

 

     (2) The department may receive and expend premiums for the

 

buy-in of medical coverage in addition to the amounts appropriated

 

in part 1.

 

     (3) The premiums described in this section shall be classified

 

as private funds.

 


     Sec. 1605. (1) The protected income level for Medicaid

 

coverage determined pursuant to section 106(1)(b)(iii) of the social

 

welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.106, shall be 100% of the related

 

public assistance standard.

 

     (2) The department shall notify the senate and house of

 

representatives appropriations subcommittees on community health

 

and the state budget director of any proposed revisions to the

 

protected income level for Medicaid coverage related to the public

 

assistance standard 90 days prior to implementation.

 

     Sec. 1606. For the purpose of guardian and conservator

 

charges, the department of community health may deduct up to $60.00

 

per month as an allowable expense against a recipient's income when

 

determining medical services eligibility and patient pay amounts.

 

     Sec. 1607. (1) An applicant for Medicaid, whose qualifying

 

condition is pregnancy, shall immediately be presumed to be

 

eligible for Medicaid coverage unless the preponderance of evidence

 

in her application indicates otherwise. The applicant who is

 

qualified as described in this subsection shall be allowed to

 

select or remain with the Medicaid participating obstetrician of

 

her choice.

 

     (2) An applicant qualified as described in subsection (1)

 

shall be given a letter of authorization to receive Medicaid

 

covered services related to her pregnancy. All qualifying

 

applicants shall be entitled to receive all medically necessary

 

obstetrical and prenatal care without preauthorization from a

 

health plan. All claims submitted for payment for obstetrical and

 

prenatal care shall be paid at the Medicaid fee-for-service rate in

 


the event a contract does not exist between the Medicaid

 

participating obstetrical or prenatal care provider and the managed

 

care plan. The applicant shall receive a listing of Medicaid

 

physicians and managed care plans in the immediate vicinity of the

 

applicant's residence.

 

     (3) In the event that an applicant, presumed to be eligible

 

pursuant to subsection (1), is subsequently found to be ineligible,

 

a Medicaid physician or managed care plan that has been providing

 

pregnancy services to an applicant under this section is entitled

 

to reimbursement for those services until such time as they are

 

notified by the department that the applicant was found to be

 

ineligible for Medicaid.

 

     (4) If the preponderance of evidence in an application

 

indicates that the applicant is not eligible for Medicaid, the

 

department shall refer that applicant to the nearest public health

 

clinic or similar entity as a potential source for receiving

 

pregnancy-related services.

 

     (5) The department shall develop an enrollment process for

 

pregnant women covered under this section that facilitates the

 

selection of a managed care plan at the time of application.

 

     Sec. 1610. The department of community health shall provide an

 

administrative procedure for the review of cost report grievances

 

by medical services providers with regard to reimbursement under

 

the medical services program. Settlements of properly submitted

 

cost reports shall be paid not later than 9 months from receipt of

 

the final report.

 

     Sec. 1611. (1) For care provided to medical services

 


recipients with other third-party sources of payment, medical

 

services reimbursement shall not exceed, in combination with such

 

other resources, including Medicare, those amounts established for

 

medical services-only patients. The medical services payment rate

 

shall be accepted as payment in full. Other than an approved

 

medical services copayment, no portion of a provider's charge shall

 

be billed to the recipient or any person acting on behalf of the

 

recipient. Nothing in this section shall be considered to affect

 

the level of payment from a third-party source other than the

 

medical services program. The department shall require a

 

nonenrolled provider to accept medical services payments as payment

 

in full.

 

     (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), medical services

 

reimbursement for hospital services provided to dual

 

Medicare/medical services recipients with Medicare Part B coverage

 

only shall equal, when combined with payments for Medicare and

 

other third-party resources, if any, those amounts established for

 

medical services-only patients, including capital payments.

 

     Sec. 1615. Unless prohibited by federal or state law or

 

regulation, the department shall require enrolled Medicaid

 

providers to submit their billings for services electronically.

 

     Sec. 1620. (1) For fee-for-service recipients who do not

 

reside in nursing homes, the pharmaceutical dispensing fee shall be

 

$2.50 or the pharmacy's usual or customary cash charge, whichever

 

is less. For nursing home residents, the pharmaceutical dispensing

 

fee shall be $2.75 or the pharmacy's usual or customary cash

 

charge, whichever is less.

 


     (2) The department shall require a prescription copayment for

 

Medicaid recipients of $1.00 for a generic drug and $3.00 for a

 

brand-name drug, except as prohibited by federal or state law or

 

regulation.

 

     (3) For fee-for-service recipients, an optional mail order

 

pharmacy program shall be available.

 

     Sec. 1621. (1) The department may implement prospective drug

 

utilization review and disease management systems. The prospective

 

drug utilization review and disease management systems authorized

 

by this subsection shall have physician oversight, shall focus on

 

patient, physician, and pharmacist education, and shall be

 

developed in consultation with the national pharmaceutical council,

 

Michigan state medical society, Michigan association of osteopathic

 

physicians, Michigan pharmacists' association, Michigan health and

 

hospital association, and Michigan nurses' association.

 

     (2) This section does not authorize or allow therapeutic

 

substitution.

 

     Sec. 1621a. (1) The department, in conjunction with

 

pharmaceutical manufacturers or their agents, may establish pilot

 

projects to test the efficacy of disease management and health

 

management programs.

 

     (2) The department may negotiate a plan that uses the savings

 

resulting from the services rendered from these programs, in lieu

 

of requiring a supplemental rebate for the inclusion of those

 

participating parties' products on the department's preferred drug

 

list.

 

     Sec. 1623. (1) The department shall continue the Medicaid

 


policy that allows for the dispensing of a 100-day supply for

 

maintenance drugs.

 

     (2) The department shall notify all HMOs, physicians,

 

pharmacies, and other medical providers that are enrolled in the

 

Medicaid program that Medicaid policy allows for the dispensing of

 

a 100-day supply for maintenance drugs.

 

     (3) The notice in subsection (2) shall also clarify that a

 

pharmacy shall fill a prescription written for maintenance drugs in

 

the quantity specified by the physician, but not more than the

 

maximum allowed under Medicaid, unless subsequent consultation with

 

the prescribing physician indicates otherwise.

 

     Sec. 1625. The department shall continue its practice of

 

placing all atypical antipsychotic medications on the Medicaid

 

preferred drug list.

 

     Sec. 1627. (1) The department shall use procedures and rebates

 

amounts specified under section 1927 of title XIX, 42 USC 1396r-8,

 

to secure quarterly rebates from pharmaceutical manufacturers for

 

outpatient drugs dispensed to participants in the MIChild program,

 

maternal outpatient medical services program, state medical

 

program, children's special health care services, and EPIC.

 

     (2) For products distributed by pharmaceutical manufacturers

 

not providing quarterly rebates as listed in subsection (1), the

 

department may require preauthorization.

 

     Sec. 1629. The department shall utilize maximum allowable cost

 

pricing for generic drugs that is based on wholesaler pricing to

 

providers that is available from at least 2 wholesalers who deliver

 

in the state of Michigan.

 


     Sec. 1630. (1) Medicaid coverage for podiatric services and

 

chiropractic services shall be restored at not less than the level

 

in effect on October 1, 2002, except that reasonable utilization

 

limitations may be adopted in order to prevent excess utilization.

 

The department shall not impose utilization restrictions on

 

chiropractic services unless a recipient has exceeded 18 office

 

visits within 1 year.

 

     (2) The department may implement the bulk purchase of hearing

 

aids, impose limitations on binaural hearing aid benefits, and

 

limit the replacement of hearing aids to once every 3 years.

 

     Sec. 1631. (1) The department shall require copayments on

 

dental, podiatric, chiropractic, vision, and hearing aid services

 

provided to Medicaid recipients, except as prohibited by federal or

 

state law or regulation.

 

     (2) Except as otherwise prohibited by federal or state law or

 

regulation, the department shall collect a $5.00 monthly premium

 

from Medicaid recipients.

 

     (3) Except as otherwise prohibited by federal or state law or

 

regulation, the department shall require a $3.00 copayment on

 

physician office visits by Medicaid recipients.

 

     Sec. 1633. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for auxiliary

 

medical services, the department shall expand the healthy kids

 

dental program statewide if funds become available specifically for

 

expansion of the program.

 

     Sec. 1634. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for ambulance

 

services, the department shall continue the 5% increase in payment

 

rates for ambulance services implemented in fiscal year 2000-2001

 


and increase the ground mileage reimbursement rate per statute mile

 

to $4.25.

 

     Sec. 1635. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for physician

 

services and health plan services, $6,910,800.00, of which

 

$3,000,000.00 is general fund/general purpose funds, shall be

 

allocated to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for obstetrical

 

services.

 

     Sec. 1641. An institutional provider that is required to

 

submit a cost report under the medical services program shall

 

submit cost reports completed in full within 5 months after the end

 

of its fiscal year.

 

     Sec. 1643. Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for graduate

 

medical education in the hospital services and therapy line item

 

appropriation, not less than $10,359,000.00 shall be allocated for

 

the psychiatric residency training program that establishes and

 

maintains collaborative relations with the schools of medicine at

 

Michigan State University and Wayne State University if the

 

necessary allowable Medicaid matching funds are provided by the

 

universities.

 

     Sec. 1646. Effective October 1, 2005, the department shall

 

eliminate Medicaid eligibility for individuals who are parents,

 

caretaker relatives, or individuals between the ages of 18 and 21

 

and who are not required to be covered under federal Medicaid

 

requirements.

 

     Sec. 1647. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for medical

 

services, the department shall allocate for graduate medical

 

education not less than the level of rates and payments in effect

 


on April 1, 2005.

 

     Sec. 1648. The department shall maintain an automated toll-

 

free phone line to enable medical providers to verify the

 

eligibility status of Medicaid recipients. There shall be no charge

 

to providers for the use of the toll-free phone line.

 

     Sec. 1649. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for medical

 

services, the department shall continue breast and cervical cancer

 

treatment coverage for women up to 250% of the federal poverty

 

level, who are under age 65, and who are not otherwise covered by

 

insurance. This coverage shall be provided to women who have been

 

screened through the centers for disease control breast and

 

cervical cancer early detection program, and are found to have

 

breast or cervical cancer, pursuant to the breast and cervical

 

cancer prevention and treatment act of 2000, Public Law 106-354,

 

114 Stat. 1381.

 

     Sec. 1650. (1) The department may require medical services

 

recipients residing in counties offering managed care options to

 

choose the particular managed care plan in which they wish to be

 

enrolled. Persons not expressing a preference may be assigned to a

 

managed care provider.

 

     (2) Persons to be assigned a managed care provider shall be

 

informed in writing of the criteria for exceptions to capitated

 

managed care enrollment, their right to change HMOs for any reason

 

within the initial 90 days of enrollment, the toll-free telephone

 

number for problems and complaints, and information regarding

 

grievance and appeals rights.

 

     (3) The criteria for medical exceptions to HMO enrollment

 


shall be based on submitted documentation that indicates a

 

recipient has a serious medical condition, and is undergoing active

 

treatment for that condition with a physician who does not

 

participate in 1 of the HMOs. If the person meets the criteria

 

established by this subsection, the department shall grant an

 

exception to mandatory enrollment at least through the current

 

prescribed course of treatment, subject to periodic review of

 

continued eligibility.

 

     Sec. 1651. (1) Medical services patients who are enrolled in

 

HMOs have the choice to elect hospice services or other services

 

for the terminally ill that are offered by the HMOs. If the patient

 

elects hospice services, those services shall be provided in

 

accordance with part 214 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368,

 

MCL 333.21401 to 333.21420.

 

     (2) The department shall not amend the medical services

 

hospice manual in a manner that would allow hospice services to be

 

provided without making available all comprehensive hospice

 

services described in 42 CFR part 418.

 

     Sec. 1653. Implementation and contracting for managed care by

 

the department through HMOs shall be subject to the following

 

conditions:

 

     (a) Continuity of care is assured by allowing enrollees to

 

continue receiving required medically necessary services from their

 

current providers for a period not to exceed 1 year if enrollees

 

meet the managed care medical exception criteria.

 

     (b) The department shall require contracted HMOs to submit

 

data determined necessary for evaluation on a timely basis.

 


     (c) Mandatory enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries living in

 

counties defined as rural by the federal government, which is any

 

nonurban standard metropolitan statistical area, is allowed if

 

there is only 1 HMO serving the Medicaid population, as long as

 

each Medicaid beneficiary is assured of having a choice of at least

 

2 physicians by the HMO.

 

     (d) Enrollment of recipients of children's special health care

 

services in HMOs shall be voluntary during the fiscal year.

 

     (e) The department shall develop a case adjustment to its rate

 

methodology that considers the costs of persons with HIV/AIDS, end

 

stage renal disease, organ transplants, and other high-cost

 

diseases or conditions and shall implement the case adjustment when

 

it is proven to be actuarially and fiscally sound. Implementation

 

of the case adjustment must be budget neutral.

 

     Sec. 1654. Medicaid HMOs shall provide for reimbursement of

 

HMO covered services delivered other than through the HMO's

 

providers if medically necessary and approved by the HMO,

 

immediately required, and that could not be reasonably obtained

 

through the HMO's providers on a timely basis. Such services shall

 

be considered approved if the HMO does not respond to a request for

 

authorization within 24 hours of the request. Reimbursement shall

 

not exceed the Medicaid fee-for-service payment for those services.

 

     Sec. 1655. (1) The department may require a 12-month lock-in

 

to the HMO selected by the recipient during the initial and

 

subsequent open enrollment periods, but allow for good cause

 

exceptions during the lock-in period.

 

     (2) Medicaid recipients shall be allowed to change HMOs for

 


any reason within the initial 90 days of enrollment.

 

     Sec. 1656. (1) The department shall provide an expedited

 

complaint review procedure for Medicaid eligible persons enrolled

 

in HMOs for situations in which failure to receive any health care

 

service would result in significant harm to the enrollee.

 

     (2) The department shall provide for a toll-free telephone

 

number for Medicaid recipients enrolled in managed care to assist

 

with resolving problems and complaints. If warranted, the

 

department shall immediately disenroll persons from managed care

 

and approve fee-for-service coverage.

 

     (3) Annual reports summarizing the problems and complaints

 

reported and their resolution shall be provided to the house of

 

representatives and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the

 

state budget office.

 

     Sec. 1657. (1) Reimbursement for medical services to screen

 

and stabilize a Medicaid recipient, including stabilization of a

 

psychiatric crisis, in a hospital emergency room shall not be made

 

contingent on obtaining prior authorization from the recipient's

 

HMO. If the recipient is discharged from the emergency room, the

 

hospital shall notify the recipient's HMO within 24 hours of the

 

diagnosis and treatment received.

 

     (2) If the treating hospital determines that the recipient

 

will require further medical service or hospitalization beyond the

 

point of stabilization, that hospital must receive authorization

 

from the recipient's HMO prior to admitting the recipient.

 

     (3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not be construed as a

 


requirement to alter an existing agreement between an HMO and their

 

contracting hospitals nor as a requirement that an HMO must

 

reimburse for services that are not considered to be medically

 

necessary.

 

     (4) Prior to contracting with an HMO for managed care services

 

that did not have a contract with the department before October 1,

 

2002, the department shall receive assurances from the office of

 

financial and insurance services that the HMO meets the net worth

 

and financial solvency requirements contained in chapter 35 of the

 

insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.3501 to 500.3580.

 

     Sec. 1658. (1) HMOs shall have contracts with hospitals within

 

a reasonable distance from their enrollees. If a hospital does not

 

contract with the HMO, in its service area, that hospital shall

 

enter into a hospital access agreement as specified in the MSA

 

bulletin Hospital 01-19.

 

     (2) A hospital access agreement specified in subsection (1)

 

shall be considered an affiliated provider contract pursuant to the

 

requirements contained in chapter 35 of the insurance code of 1956,

 

1956 PA 218, MCL 500.3501 to 500.3580.

 

     Sec. 1659. The following sections of this article are the only

 

ones that shall apply to the following Medicaid managed care

 

programs, including the comprehensive plan, children's special

 

health care services plan, MIChoice long-term care plan, and the

 

mental health, substance abuse, and developmentally disabled

 

services program: 401, 402, 404, 414, 418, 424, 428, 1650, 1651,

 

1653, 1654, 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1660, 1661, 1662, 1665, 1666,

 

1699, and 1700.

 


     Sec. 1660. (1) The department shall assure that all Medicaid

 

children have timely access to EPSDT services as required by

 

federal law. Medicaid HMOs shall provide EPSDT services to their

 

child members in accordance with Medicaid EPSDT policy.

 

     (2) The primary responsibility of assuring a child's hearing

 

and vision screening is with the child's primary care provider. The

 

primary care provider shall provide age appropriate screening or

 

arrange for these tests through referrals to local health

 

departments.

 

     (3) The department shall require Medicaid HMOs to provide

 

EPSDT utilization data through the encounter data system, and

 

health employer data and information set well child health measures

 

in accordance with the National Committee on Quality Assurance

 

prescribed methodology.

 

     (4) The department shall require HMOs to be responsible for

 

well child visits and maternal and infant support services as

 

described in Medicaid policy. These responsibilities shall be

 

specified in the information distributed by the HMOs to their

 

members.

 

     (5) The department shall provide, on an annual basis, budget

 

neutral incentives to Medicaid HMOs and local health departments to

 

improve performance on measures related to the care of children and

 

pregnant women.

 

     Sec. 1661. (1) The department shall assure that all Medicaid

 

eligible children and pregnant women have timely access to MSS/ISS

 

services. Medicaid HMOs shall assure that maternal support service

 

screening is available to their pregnant members and that those

 


women found to meet the maternal support service high-risk criteria

 

are offered maternal support services. Local health departments

 

shall assure that maternal support service screening is available

 

for Medicaid pregnant women not enrolled in an HMO and that those

 

women found to meet the maternal support service high-risk criteria

 

are offered maternal support services or are referred to a

 

certified maternal support service provider.

 

     (2) The department shall prohibit HMOs from requiring prior

 

authorization of their contracted providers for any EPSDT screening

 

and diagnosis service, for any MSS/ISS screening referral, or for

 

up to 3 MSS/ISS service visits.

 

     (3) The department shall assure the coordination of MSS/ISS

 

services with the WIC program, state-supported substance abuse,

 

smoking prevention, and violence prevention programs, the

 

department of human services, and any other state or local program

 

with a focus on preventing adverse birth outcomes and child abuse

 

and neglect.

 

     Sec. 1662. (1) The department shall assure that an external

 

quality review of each contracting HMO is performed that results in

 

an analysis and evaluation of aggregated information on quality,

 

timeliness, and access to health care services that the HMO or its

 

contractors furnish to Medicaid beneficiaries.

 

     (2) The department shall provide a copy of the analysis of the

 

Medicaid HMO annual audited health employer data and information

 

set reports and the annual external quality review report to the

 

senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on

 

community health, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the

 


state budget director, within 30 days of the department's receipt

 

of the final reports from the contractors.

 

     (3) The department shall work with the Michigan association of

 

health plans and the Michigan association for local public health

 

to improve service delivery and coordination in the MSS/ISS and

 

EPSDT programs.

 

     (4) The department shall assure that training and technical

 

assistance are available for EPSDT and MSS/ISS for Medicaid health

 

plans, local health departments, and MSS/ISS contractors.

 

     Sec. 1665. From the healthy Michigan funds appropriated in

 

part 1 for health plan services, $10,388,100.00 shall provide

 

health related services to Medicaid eligible individuals. Services

 

shall include each of the following:

 

     (a) Alzheimer's disease and dementia information and support.

 

     (b) Cancer prevention and control.

 

     (c) Child and adult arthritis.

 

     (d) Family planning and pregnancy prevention.

 

     (e) Immunization.

 

     (f) Maternal and child health.

 

     (g) Smoking prevention.

 

     Sec. 1666. To increase timely repayment of the maternity case

 

rate to health plans and reduce the need to recover revenue from

 

hospitals, the department shall implement system changes to assure

 

that children who are born to mothers who are Medicaid eligible and

 

enrolled in health plans are immediately included in the Medicaid

 

eligibility file and enrolled in the same health plan as the mother

 

or any other health plan designated by the mother.

 


     Sec. 1670. (1) The appropriation in part 1 for the MIChild

 

program is to be used to provide comprehensive health care to all

 

children under age 19 who reside in families with income at or

 

below 200% of the federal poverty level, who are uninsured and have

 

not had coverage by other comprehensive health insurance within 6

 

months of making application for MIChild benefits, and who are

 

residents of this state. The department shall develop detailed

 

eligibility criteria through the medical services administration

 

public concurrence process, consistent with the provisions of this

 

article. Health care coverage for children in families below 150%

 

of the federal poverty level shall be provided through expanded

 

eligibility under the state's Medicaid program. Health coverage for

 

children in families between 150% and 200% of the federal poverty

 

level shall be provided through a state-based private health care

 

program.

 

     (2) The department may provide up to 1 year of continuous

 

eligibility to children eligible for the MIChild program unless the

 

family fails to pay the monthly premium, a child reaches age 19, or

 

the status of the children's family changes and its members no

 

longer meet the eligibility criteria as specified in the federally

 

approved MIChild state plan.

 

     (3) Children whose category of eligibility changes between the

 

Medicaid and MIChild programs shall be assured of keeping their

 

current health care providers through the current prescribed course

 

of treatment for up to 1 year, subject to periodic reviews by the

 

department if the beneficiary has a serious medical condition and

 

is undergoing active treatment for that condition.

 


     (4) To be eligible for the MIChild program, a child must be

 

residing in a family with an adjusted gross income of less than or

 

equal to 200% of the federal poverty level. The department's

 

verification policy shall be used to determine eligibility.

 

     (5) The department shall enter into a contract to obtain

 

MIChild services from any HMO, dental care corporation, or any

 

other entity that offers to provide the managed health care

 

benefits for MIChild services at the MIChild capitated rate. As

 

used in this subsection:

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