April 28, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Green, Liss, Haase, Constan, Slavens, Meekhof, Roy Schmidt, Terry Brown, Espinoza, Scripps, Kennedy, Miller, Johnson, Huckleberry, Donigan, Rogers, Kowall, Marleau, Hildenbrand, Elsenheimer, Schuitmaker, Denby, Rick Jones, Crawford, Lori, Haines, Pearce, Ball, Booher, Wayne Schmidt, Haveman, Hansen, Horn, Opsommer, Calley, Daley, Tyler, Valentine, Leland, Bolger, Mayes, Lahti, Spade, Neumann, Polidori, Lemmons, Nerat, Lipton, Moore, Stamas, Rocca, DeShazor, Kurtz, Walsh, Caul, Bledsoe, Gregory, Knollenberg, Slezak, Proos, Pavlov, Lund, Haugh, Tlaib, Young, Robert Jones, Geiss, Bennett, Switalski, Kandrevas, Jackson, Sheltrown, Lindberg, Bettie Scott, Dean, Durhal, Meadows, McMillin, Clemente, Cushingberry, McDowell, Meltzer, Hammel, Gonzales, Nathan and Bauer and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 16278.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 16278. (1) A health care professional licensed or
registered under this article that is providing health care
services to a patient who is a pregnant woman shall verbally inform
that patient of the potential risk of stillbirth. A health care
professional licensed or registered under this article who is
providing health care services to a patient who is a pregnant woman
shall distribute to that patient the written information described
in subsection (2) between the twentieth and twenty-eighth weeks of
gestation. This section does not apply to a health care
professional who provides emergency or nonprimary health care
services to a patient who is a pregnant woman.
(2) The department, in consultation with appropriate
professional organizations and other appropriate state and federal
departments and agencies, shall make written information available
regarding the potential risk of stillbirth. Written information
shall include preventive measures applicable to the risk of
stillbirth, including awareness of decreased fetal movements and
counting fetal kicks to reduce that risk. The department may use
existing written information regarding the potential risk of
stillbirth and preventive measures applicable to that risk to
comply with the requirements of this subsection. Whether the
department develops its own information or uses existing written
information to comply with this subsection, the department shall
make available copies of the written information in English,
Spanish, and other languages, as determined appropriate by the
department, and shall assure that the pamphlet is written in easily
understood, nontechnical terms.
(3) The department shall make written information required
under subsection (2) available free of charge to the Michigan board
of medicine, the Michigan board of osteopathic medicine and
surgery, health professionals required to comply with subsection
(1), and local health departments. The department shall make
written information required under subsection (2) available to
other persons upon written request, at cost.
(4) As used in this section, "stillbirth" means sudden
antenatal death syndrome or SADS.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 60 days
after the date it is enacted into law.