Act No. 247
Public Acts of 2024
Approved by the Governor
January 21, 2025
Filed with the Secretary of State
January 21, 2025
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 2, 2025
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2024
Introduced by Reps. Brenda Carter, Hood, Conlin, Rheingans, Brixie, Edwards, Morse, Dievendorf, MacDonell, Hill, Young, Steckloff, Price, Brabec, Neeley, O’Neal, Haadsma, Scott, Arbit, Tsernoglou, Byrnes, Grant, Glanville, Stone, Miller, Wilson, Fitzgerald, Farhat and Aiyash
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5170
AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “An act to revise,
consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety
business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and
surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien
companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and
to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized,
existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide
the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which
other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and
purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their
powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance
companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the
imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and
associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups
and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business
of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on
certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance
organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to
provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to
prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security
for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued
availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance
in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents
of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting
with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured
or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and
officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to
establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the
status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice
insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the
insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over
worker’s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation,
rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for
the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or
insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect
policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe
educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for
the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an
automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts
in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft
prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain
officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an
appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for
the violation of this act,” (MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406oo.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 3406oo. An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy shall provide coverage for mental health screenings during the postpartum period as described in section 9137 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.9137.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5169 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor