SB-0374, As Passed Senate, October 14, 2015
June 4, 2015, Introduced by Senators HERTEL, GREGORY, WARREN and MARLEAU and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 5101 (MCL 333.5101), as amended by 2010 PA 119.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 5101. (1) As used in this article:
(a) "Care" includes treatment, control, transportation,
confinement, and isolation in a facility or other location.
(b) "Communicable disease" means an illness due to a specific
infectious agent or its toxic products that results from
transmission of that infectious agent or its products from a
reservoir to a susceptible host, directly as from an infected
individual or animal, or indirectly through the agency of an
intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate
environment.
(c) "HIV" means human immunodeficiency virus.
(d) "HIV infection" or "HIV infected" means the status of an
individual who has tested positive for HIV, as evidenced by either
a double positive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test, combined
with a positive western blot assay test, or a positive result under
an
HIV test that is considered reliable by the federal centers for
disease
control and prevention Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention and is approved by the department.
(e) "Immunization" means the process of increasing an
individual's immunity to a disease by use of a vaccine, antibody
preparation, or other substance.
(f) "Infection" means the invasion of the body with
microorganisms or parasites, whether or not the invasion results in
detectable pathologic effects.
(g) "Serious communicable disease or infection" means a
communicable disease or infection that is designated as serious by
the department pursuant to this part. Serious communicable disease
or infection includes, but is not limited to, HIV infection,
acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome, venereal disease, sexually
transmitted infection, and tuberculosis.
(h)
"Venereal disease" "Sexually
transmitted infection" means
syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma
inguinale,
and other sexually transmitted diseases infections that
the department may designate and require to be reported under
section 5111.
(2) In addition, article 1 contains general definitions and
principles of construction applicable to all articles in this code.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 98th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 375.
(b) Senate Bill No. 376.
(c) Senate Bill No. 377.
(d) Senate Bill No. 378.
(e) Senate Bill No. 379.
(f) Senate Bill No. 380.
(g) Senate Bill No. 381.