Act No. 570

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 3, 2007

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2007

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Reps. Sak, Plakas, Gaffney, Adamini, Brown, Green, Alma Smith, Leland, Espinoza, Kooiman, Bennett, Farrah, Gonzales, Waters, Steil, Gleason, Byrum, Hansen, Vander Veen, Wojno, Angerer, Nofs, Vagnozzi, McDowell, Farhat and Clack

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6309

AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled "An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," by amending section 2844a (MCL 333.2844a), as amended by 1990 PA 149.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2844a. (1) In deaths investigated by the county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner where he or she is not able to establish and verify, as required under section 5 of 1953 PA 181, MCL 52.205, the identity of the dead body by visual means, fingerprints, DNA, or other definitive identification procedures, the county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner may have a qualified dentist, as determined by the county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner, carry out a dental examination of the dead body. If the county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner, with the aid of the dental examination and other identifying findings, is still not able to establish the identity of the dead body, the county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner shall forward the dental examination records to the appropriate law enforcement agency. The law enforcement agency shall enter the information from the dental examination records into the national crime information center pursuant to section 8 of 1968 PA 319, MCL 28.258.

(2) If a person reported missing has not been found within 30 days, the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation for the missing person shall request the family or next of kin of the missing person to give them written consent to contact and request from the dentist of the missing person the person's dental records. The information from the dental records of the missing person shall be entered into the national crime information center by the law enforcement agency pursuant to section 8 of 1968 PA 319, MCL 28.258.

(3) If a person reported missing has been found, the law enforcement agency that entered the information under subsection (2) shall cancel the information.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 6308 of the 93rd Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor