HOUSE BILL No. 5874


     April 10, 2002, Introduced by Rep. Gosselin and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.


        A bill to amend 1945 PA 47, entitled

   "An act to authorize 2 or more cities, townships, and villages,
   or any combination of cities, townships, and villages, to incor-
   porate a hospital authority for planning, promoting, acquiring,
   constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, owning, maintain-
   ing, and operating 1 or more community hospitals and related
   buildings or structures and related facilities; to provide for
   the sale, lease, or other transfer of a hospital owned by a hos-
   pital authority to a nonprofit corporation established under the
   laws of this state for no or nominal monetary consideration; to
   define hospitals and community hospitals; to provide for changes
   in the membership therein; to authorize the cities, townships,
   and villages to levy taxes for community hospital purposes; to
   provide for the issuance of bonds; to provide for the pledge of
   assessments; to provide for borrowing money for operation and
   maintenance and issuing notes for operation and maintenance; to
   validate elections heretofore held and notes heretofore issued;
   to validate bonds heretofore issued; to authorize condemnation
   proceedings; to grant certain powers of a body corporate; to val-
   idate and ratify the organization, existence, and membership of
   entities acting as hospital authorities under the act and the
   actions taken by hospital authorities and by the members of the
   hospital authorities; and to prescribe penalties and provide
   remedies,"

   by repealing section 8t (MCL 331.8t).




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               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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             Enacting section 1.  Section 8t of 1945 PA 47, MCL 331.8t,

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        is repealed.

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             Enacting section 2.  This amendatory act does not take

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        effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. 5871

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        (request no. 06393'01) of the 91st Legislature is enacted into

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        law.










































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