RX OPIOID ABUSE EDUCATION H.B. 4406 & 4407 (H-1):
SUMMARY OF HOUSE-PASSED BILL
IN COMMITTEE
House Bill 4406 (as passed by the House)
House Bill 4407 (Substitute S-1 as passed by the House)
Sponsor: Representative Beth Griffin
House Committee: Health Policy
Senate Committee: Health Policy
CONTENT
House Bill 4406 would add Section 7113a to the Public Health Code to require the Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission to develop or adopt recommendations for the instruction of pupils on the prescription drug epidemic and prescription opioid drug abuse.
House Bill 4407 (H-1) would amend the Revised School Code to require the Department of Education to make available a model program of instruction on prescription opioid drug abuse based on the recommendations under proposed Section 7113a and ensure that certain content standards and guidelines for health education also included instruction on prescription opioid drug abuse.
Each bill would take effect 90 days after it was enacted. The bills are tie-barred.
House Bill 4406
Under the bill, by January 1, 2018, the Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission established by Executive Order 2016-15 would have to develop or adopt recommendations for the instruction of pupils on prescription opioid drug abuse.
The required recommendations would have to include instruction on the prescription drug epidemic and the connection between prescription opioid drug abuse and addiction to other drugs.
(Executive Order 2016-15 established the Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. The Commission replaced the Controlled Substances Advisory Commission and the Advisory Committee on Pain and Symptom Management. The new Commission is tasked with reviewing the 2015 Report of Findings and Recommendations for Action from the Michigan Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Task Force and developing and proposing policies and an action plan to implement those recommendations, among other things.)
House Bill 4407 (H-1)
The bill would require the Department of Education, by July 1, 2018, to make available to school districts and public school academies a grade- and age-appropriate model program of instruction on prescription opioid drug abuse based on the recommendations developed by
the Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission under proposed Section 7113a of the Public Health Code. The model program of instruction would have to include at least instruction on the prescription drug epidemic and the connection between prescription opioid drug abuse and addiction to other drugs.
Additionally, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, the Department would have to ensure that the model core academic curriculum content standards for health education and the subject area content expectation and guidelines for health education included instruction on prescription opioid abuse, including the model program of instruction.
Proposed MCL 333.7113a (H.B. 4406) Legislative Analyst: Stephen Jackson
Proposed MCL 380.1170b (H.B. 4407)
FISCAL IMPACT
House Bill 4406
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
House Bill 4407 (H-1)
The bill would result in additional administrative costs to the Department of Education and indeterminate costs to local education authorities (LEAs). The Department would incur administrative costs in order to modify the grade-level health education content standards. Local education authorities also would incur short-term costs in order to modify and implement health curriculum that aligned with the bill. Due to the variation in LEAs and costs throughout the State, the total costs to implement the new curriculum are indeterminate.
Josh Sefton
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.