HOUSE BILL No. 5993

 

April 25, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Vander Veen, Vagnozzi, Polidori, Green and Ball and referred to the Committee on Senior Health, Security, and Retirement.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 21737.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 21737. (1) A nursing home shall not be licensed under

 

this part unless the nursing home is fully sprinklered.

 

     (2) Within 6 months after the effective date of this section,

 

a nursing home licensed under this part that is not fully

 

sprinklered shall, in accordance with the fire prevention code,

 

1941 PA 207, MCL 29.1 to 29.34, submit detailed plans and

 

specifications of the installation of a fire suppression system or

 

the retrofitting of its current system to the state fire marshal

 

and provide the department, upon request, copies of the same. Not


 

later than 1 year after the effective date of this section, each of

 

those nursing homes shall have an automatic fire suppression system

 

installed on each floor that is approved by the state fire marshal.

 

     (3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply unless congress

 

enacts the nursing home fire safety act of 2005 or other similar

 

legislation, as determined by the department, creating a funding

 

mechanism for fire sprinkler retrofitting in nursing homes.

 

Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply until 90 days after the

 

effective date of such federal legislation or 90 days after the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this section,

 

whichever is later.