HOUSE BILL No. 5614

 

 

February 20, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Sneller, Sowerby, Ellison, Pagan, Geiss, Guerra, Greig, Moss, Clemente, Rabhi, Cambensy, Wittenberg, Hammoud, Yancey, Chang, Brinks, Lasinski, Hoadley, Santana, Love and Faris 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 20190.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20190. (1) Before the expiration of 30 days after the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the

 

department shall prepare and distribute to health facilities and

 

agencies that provide emergency or urgent care medically and

 

factually accurate written information about emergency

 

contraception. On and after the expiration of 30 days after the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a

 

health facility or agency that provides emergency or urgent care

 

shall provide to all individuals who provide care to victims of

 

criminal sexual conduct in that facility the written information

 

about emergency contraception prepared under this subsection.


     (2) A health facility or agency that provides emergency or

 

urgent care shall promptly provide to a patient who is a female

 

victim of criminal sexual conduct and who is of childbearing age a

 

copy of the written information about emergency contraception

 

prepared under subsection (1) and shall promptly offer emergency

 

contraception to that female victim. If the female victim of

 

criminal sexual conduct who is of childbearing age requests

 

emergency contraception, the health facility or agency shall

 

administer emergency contraception to that female victim.

 

     (3) A health facility or agency that administers emergency

 

contraception under subsection (2) shall annually report to the

 

department the number of times emergency contraception is

 

administered to victims of criminal sexual conduct under this

 

section. A health facility or agency shall not identify any

 

individual patient in a report made under this section. A report

 

made under this section is confidential and is not subject to

 

public disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA

 

442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

 

     (4) The department may promulgate rules necessary to

 

administer this section and shall promulgate rules necessary to

 

carry out the annual reporting requirement of subsection (3).

 

     (5) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Emergency contraception" means a drug, medicine, oral

 

hormonal compound, mixture, preparation, instrument, article, or

 

device that is approved by the United States Food and Drug

 

Administration and that prevents a pregnancy after sexual

 

intercourse. Emergency contraception does not include a drug,


medicine, oral hormonal compound, mixture, preparation, instrument,

 

article, or device of any nature that is prescribed to terminate

 

the pregnancy of a female.

 

     (b) "Victim of criminal sexual conduct" means a victim of

 

criminal sexual conduct under section 520b, 520c, 520d, 520e, or

 

520g of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.520b,

 

750.520c, 750.520d, 750.520e, and 750.520g.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.