SENATE BILL No. 907

December 4, 2001, Introduced by Senator MC COTTER and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

A bill to amend 1925 PA 177, entitled

"An act to protect and promote the public health and welfare, and

to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of

hospitals and sanatoriums for the treatment of tuberculosis; and

to make an appropriation therefor,"

by amending sections 9 and 14 (MCL 332.159 and 332.164).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1 Sec. 9. Any A sanatorium established hereunder UNDER

2 THIS ACT shall be maintained and operated for the benefit of the

3 residents of the county or counties establishing and maintaining

4 the same IT. The board of trustees shall make regulations cov-

5 ering the admission and conduct of patients and may exclude any

6 person or persons wilfully WILLFULLY violating such THE

7 regulations. Any person afflicted with tuberculosis may be

8 admitted to the sanatorium on a certificate of the health officer

9 of the city, village, township, county, or district in which

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1 such THAT person resides. If the facilities of the sanatorium

2 will permit, the board of trustees may in its discretion accept

3 patients afflicted with tuberculosis who are not residents of the

4 county or counties establishing and maintaining the sanatorium,

5 upon such THE terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed

6 upon. On the first day of each month the board of trustees or

7 the medical superintendent of the sanatorium, whether organized

8 and established under the provisions of this act or any other act

9 or acts permitting counties to erect and maintain sanatoriums for

10 treatment of tuberculosis, shall report to the state commis-

11 sioner of DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY health the

12 number of patients treated during the preceding month, with

13 such detailed information as said commissioner THE DIRECTOR

14 may require. Such THE reports shall show specifically the

15 number of patients treated, with the compensation and aggregate

16 number of weeks of such THE treatment. Such THE report shall

17 be verified by the medical superintendent or by the president of

18 the board of trustees. If accepted and approved by the state

19 commissioner of DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY health,

20 it shall be the duty of the latter official to HE OR SHE SHALL

21 certify to the auditor general STATE TREASURER that the sanato-

22 rium in question has treated without compensation patients for an

23 aggregate specified number of days. Thereupon the auditor gen-

24 eral shall draw his warrant on the THE state treasurer , in

25 favor of SHALL PAY the county treasurer having the funds of the

26 sanatorium in his OR HER custody , for such an amount as will

27 constitute compensation for such free patients on the basis of

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1 $6.00 per day each. it being IT IS the intent hereof OF THE

2 LEGISLATURE that the state shall contribute towards the cost of

3 maintaining and treating free patients the sum of $6.00 for each

4 day of such THE care and treatment. All sums due any county

5 from the state of Michigan hereunder UNDER THIS ACT shall be a

6 continuing obligation of the state and shall be paid out of any

7 funds which THAT may be appropriated by the legislature for

8 that purpose.

9 Sec. 14. Whenever the board of supervisors of any county

10 shall contract CONTRACTS with the management or owners of any

11 hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of persons afflicted

12 with tuberculosis and such THAT hospital or sanatorium shall

13 have been IS approved by the state commissioner of DIRECTOR OF

14 THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY health, as provided in the preceding

15 section, it shall be the duty of the clerk of said THAT

16 county, or the board of county auditors in counties having such

17 boards, or other legally designated authority, on the first day

18 of each month, to SHALL report to the state commissioner of

19 DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY health the number of

20 patients treated at any such THE sanatorium or hospital during

21 the preceding month on contract with said THE county, with

22 such detailed information as said commissioner THE DIRECTOR

23 may require. Such THE reports shall show specifically the

24 number of patients treated, any compensation paid by the county

25 therefor FOR THE TREATMENT, and the aggregate number of days of

26 such THE treatment. Such THE report shall be verified by the

27 officer or officers making the same REPORT. Upon receipt and

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1 approval of such THE report by the state commissioner of

2 DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY health, it shall be the

3 duty of the latter official to HE OR SHE SHALL certify to the

4 auditor general STATE TREASURER that the county in question has

5 caused to be treated, without compensation to it, patients for an

6 aggregate specified number of days based upon said THE report.

7 Thereupon the auditor general THE STATE TREASURER shall draw

8 his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of PAY the county

9 treasurer of such THE county for such an amount as will con-

10 stitute compensation for such patients on the basis of $6.00 per

11 day each. , it being IT IS the intent hereof OF THE

12 LEGISLATURE that the state shall contribute towards the cost of

13 maintaining and treating such patients the sum of $6.00 for each

14 day of such care and treatment. If the sum appropriated by the

15 legislature is not sufficient to pay all demands, then the funds

16 appropriated shall be paid pro rata to the counties and cities

17 entitled thereto TO THE FUNDS, and such THE contributions

18 shall be made in accordance with rules and regulations promul-

19 gated by the state commissioner of DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT

20 OF COMMUNITY health for the purpose of protecting the rights of

21 all such AFFECTED counties and cities in such THE fund.

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