HOUSE BILL No. 4879

 

May 5, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Liss, Ball, Slavens, Lisa Brown, Johnson, Durhal, Bettie Scott, Young, Walsh, Denby, Donigan, Griffin, Roy Schmidt, Valentine and Womack and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

by amending section 20507 (MCL 333.20507).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20507. Sections 20501 to 20525 do not apply to any of the

 

following:

 

     (a) A laboratory where examinations are always performed

 

personally by the individual desiring the information.

 

     (b) A laboratory operated by an individual licensed to

 

practice medicine, osteopathic medicine and surgery, dentistry, or

 

podiatry who performs clinical laboratory tests or procedures

 

personally or through his or her employees only as an adjunct to

 

the treatment of the licensee's patients.

 

     (c) A laboratory operated in the manner described in

 


subdivision (b) by a group of not more than 5 individuals licensed

 

to practice medicine, osteopathic medicine and surgery, dentistry,

 

or podiatry.

 

     (d) A laboratory operated by a college, university, or school

 

approved by the department of education that is conducted for the

 

training of its students, if the result of an examination performed

 

in the clinical laboratory is not used in the diagnosis and

 

treatment of disease.

 

     (e) A laboratory operated by the federal government.

 

     (f) A laboratory that is operated by a home care agency or

 

hospice and that is in possession of a current and valid

 

certificate of waiver issued by the United States department of

 

health and human services under 42 CFR section 493.37.