Act No. 580

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 4, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 4, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Reps. Newell, Waters, Daniels, Anderson, Stewart, O'Neil, Rocca, Woodward, Phillips, Richardville, Spade, Murphy, Whitmer, Kooiman, Hager, Ehardt, Vander Veen, Williams, Rivet, Sheltrown, Adamini, Brown, Gaffney, Hunter, Tobocman, Farrah, LaJoy, Hopgood, Bieda, Meisner, Clack, Vagnozzi, DeRoche, Taub, Accavitti, Stakoe, Hune, Gleason, Milosch, Shaffer, Nofs, Ward, Byrum, Sak, Stahl, Huizenga, Farhat, Elkins, Moolenaar, Palsrok, Gillard and Dillon

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6104

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 20917a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 20917a. (1) The statewide trauma care advisory subcommittee is established under the emergency medical services coordination committee to advise and assist the department on all matters concerning the development, implementation, and promulgation of rules for the implementation and continuing operation of a statewide trauma care system. The subcommittee shall consist of 10 members appointed by the director, within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, as follows:

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

(b) One trauma nurse coordinator.

(c) One trauma registrar.

(d) One emergency physician.

(e) Two administrative hospital representatives, 1 of whom represents a hospital designated as a level I or level II trauma center by the American college of surgeons committee on trauma and 1 of whom represents a hospital that is not designated as a level I or level II trauma center by the American college of surgeons committee on trauma.

(f) One life support agency manager who is a member of the emergency medical services coordination committee.

(g) Two medical control authority medical directors, 1 of whom represents a rural county and 1 of whom represents a nonrural county.

(2) The members shall serve for a term of 3 years. A member who is unable to complete a term shall be replaced for the balance of the unexpired term.

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

(4) Meetings of the committee are subject to the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275. Six members 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.

(6) "Rural county" means a county not located in a metropolitan statistical area or micropolitan statistical areas as those terms are defined under the "standards for defining metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas" by the statistical policy office of the office of information and regulatory affairs of the United States office of management and budget, 65 FR p. 82238 (December 27, 2000).

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 6102.

(b) House Bill No. 6103.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor