Act No. 557

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 3, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Senators Patterson, Hammerstrom and Jacobs

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1472

AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled "An act to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to mental health; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials and certain private agencies and individuals; to regulate certain agencies and facilities providing mental health services; to provide for certain charges and fees; to establish civil admission procedures for individuals with mental illness or developmental disability; to establish guardianship procedures for individuals with developmental disability; to establish procedures regarding individuals with mental illness or developmental disability who are in the criminal justice system; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," by amending section 415 (MCL 330.1415), as amended by 1995 PA 290.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 415. Subject to section 410, an individual 18 years of age or over may be hospitalized as a formal voluntary patient if the individual executes an application for hospitalization as a formal voluntary patient or the individual assents and the full guardian of the individual, the limited guardian with authority to admit, or a patient advocate authorized by the individual to make mental health treatment decisions under the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.1101 to 700.8102, executes an application for hospitalization and if the hospital director considers the individual to be clinically suitable for that form of hospitalization.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 1464.

(b) Senate Bill No. 1468.

(c) Senate Bill No. 1469.

(d) Senate Bill No. 1470.

(e) Senate Bill No. 1471.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor