HB-6104, As Passed Senate, December 8, 2004                                 

    SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR

    HOUSE BILL NO. 6104

                                                                             A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled                                             

"Public health code,"                                                       

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 20917a.                       

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1   Sec. 20917a.  (1) The statewide trauma care advisory                        

2   subcommittee is established under the emergency medical services            

3   coordination committee to advise and assist the department on all           

4   matters concerning the development, implementation, and                     

5   promulgation of rules for the implementation and continuing                 

6   operation of a statewide trauma care system.  The subcommittee              

7   shall consist of 10 members appointed by the director, within 90            

8   days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added              

9   this section, as follows:                                                   

10  (a) Two trauma surgeons who are trauma center directors.                    

11      (b) One trauma nurse coordinator.                                           

House Bill No. 6104 as amended December 7, 2004                             

1       (c) One trauma registrar.                                                   

2       (d) One emergency physician.                                                

3       (e) Two administrative hospital representatives, 1 of whom                  

4   represents a hospital designated as a level I or level II trauma            

5   center by the American college of surgeons committee on trauma              

6   and 1 of whom represents a hospital that is not designated as a             

7   level I or level II trauma center by the American college of                

8   surgeons committee on trauma.                                               

9       (f) One life support agency manager who is a member of the                  

10  emergency medical services coordination committee.                          

11      (g) Two medical control authority medical directors, 1 of                   

12  whom represents a rural county and 1 of whom represents a                   

13  nonrural county.                                                            

14      (2) The members shall serve for a term of 3 years.  A member                

15  who is unable to complete a term shall be replaced for the                  

16  balance of the unexpired term.                                              

17      (3) The committee shall annually select a member to serve as                

18  chairperson.                                                                

19      (4) Meetings of the committee are subject to the open                       

20  meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.  Six members               

21   constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

    <<(5) Recommendations regarding potential funding mechanisms and sources for the statewide trauma care system shall only be submitted to the department for consideration after a unanimous vote of all members of the statewide trauma care advisory subcommittee in support of those recommendations.>>

22      <<(6)>> "Rural county" means a county not located in a                      

23  metropolitan statistical area or micropolitan statistical areas             

24  as those terms are defined under the "standards for defining                

25  metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas" by the                     

26  statistical policy office of the office of information and                  

27  regulatory affairs of the United States office of management and            

1   budget, 65 FR p. 82238 (December 27, 2000).

2       Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take                      

3   effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature            

4   are enacted into law:                                                       

5       (a) House Bill No. 6102.                                                    

6       (b) House Bill No. 6103.