Act No. 164

Public Acts of 1997

Approved by the Governor

December 29, 1997

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 29, 1997

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 1998

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1997

Introduced by Senators Geake, Gougeon, Shugars and Peters

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 491

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 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 penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; 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 6232.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 6232. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a licensee under this part maintains a waiting list for services, the licensee shall place a parent whose child has been removed from the home under the child protection laws of this state or is in danger of being removed from the home under the child protection laws of this state because of the parent's substance abuse in a priority position on the waiting list above all other applicants with substantially similar clinical conditions.

(2) If a licensee receives federal substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant funds, the priority position of the parent on the waiting list granted under subsection (1) will come after a priority position on the waiting list granted under the conditions of the federal block grant. However, if the parent qualifies for priority status on the waiting list under the conditions of the federal block grant, the licensee shall place the parent in that priority position on the waiting list.

Secretary of the Senate.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Approved

Governor.