HOUSE BILL No. 4750


     May 8, 2001, Introduced by Reps. Reeves, Mead, Rivet, McConico, Minore, Gieleghem, Voorhees, Murphy, Hardman, Kilpatrick, Bradstreet,
Vander Veen, Garza, Zelenko, Rison, Kolb, Lipsey, DeWeese, Schauer, Pappageorge, Hart, Vander Roest, Tabor, Jansen and Lemmons and referred to the
Committee on Insurance and Financial Services.


        A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

   "The social welfare act,"

   (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 109h.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           SEC. 109H.  (1) THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH SHALL

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      INCLUDE, AS PART OF ITS PROGRAM OF MEDICAL SERVICES UNDER THIS

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      ACT, COVERAGE FOR MATERNITY SERVICES PROVIDED BY A NURSE MIDWIFE

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      ACTING WITHIN THE SCOPE OF HIS OR HER SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION.

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           (2) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE" MEANS

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      AN INDIVIDUAL LICENSED AS A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE UNDER

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      PART 172 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CODE, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17201 TO

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      333.17242, WHO HAS BEEN ISSUED A SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION IN THE

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      PRACTICE OF NURSE MIDWIFERY BY THE BOARD OF NURSING UNDER SECTION

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      17210 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CODE, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17210.




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