Act No. 15

Public Acts of 2010

Approved by the Governor

March 18, 2010

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 18, 2010

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 18, 2010

STATE OF MICHIGAN

95TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2010

Introduced by Senators Basham, Patterson, Anderson, Cherry, Hunter, Clark-Coleman, Olshove, Thomas, Prusi, Switalski, Sanborn, Gilbert, Brown, Jacobs, Barcia, Gleason, Clarke, Allen, George, Nofs, Van Woerkom, Kahn, Pappageorge, Birkholz, Hardiman, Garcia, Jansen, Brater, Kuipers, Whitmer, Bishop, Scott, Stamas, Richardville, Cassis, Cropsey, Jelinek and McManus

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1172

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,” (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 17231.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 17231. (1) The department, in consultation with the board, may issue an honorary license to an individual, living or deceased, who has met all of the requirements of this part to be eligible for a license except for passage of an examination and who is unable to take the examination due to advanced illness. An honorary license issued under this section does not confer any right to engage in the practice of nursing.

(2) As used in this section, “advanced illness” means that term as defined in section 5653.

(3) This section may be referred to as “Katie Viger’s law”.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor