Bill Text: MI HB6533 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health: diseases; methods for preventing the spread of communicable diseases; revise to permit the exclusion of certain individuals from schools and certain programs, and require the department to post immunization rules on its website. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding secs. 5116 & 9228.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-21 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 12/21/2020 [HB6533 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB6533-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6533
December 17, 2020, Introduced by Rep. LaGrand
and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding sections 5116 and 9228.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 5116. If a local health officer confirms or reasonably suspects that an individual attending school or a program of group residence, care, or camping has a communicable disease and that there is a risk of the spread of the communicable disease, or a local health officer confirms or reasonably suspects that there is a risk of the spread of a communicable disease within the community for which a vaccine is available, the local health officer may exclude from attendance any of the following individuals until the local health officer determines that there is likely no further risk of the spread of the communicable disease:
(a) An individual lacking a certificate described in section 9206 indicating that the individual has been immunized for the communicable disease.
(b) An individual whom the local health officer otherwise considers susceptible to the communicable disease.
Sec. 9228. The department shall inform the public of the rules promulgated under section 9227(1)(a) to (c) through the use of mass media and by posting the rules on the department's website.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
