Bill Text: MI SB1134 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Health facilities; employees; notification that child safety seat may be improperly installed and referral to inspection program; authorize employees to give and prohibit employees from penalizing employees who do. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 20135.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-12-04 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB1134 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB1134-Engrossed.html

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SB-1134, As Passed Senate, December 4, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 1134

 

 

November 6, 2014, Introduced by Senators EMMONS, HANSEN, PROOS, ANANICH and PAPPAGEORGE and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 20135.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20135. (1) An employee of a health facility or agency may

 

do any of the following:

 

     (a) Inform an individual who is a patient of or a visitor to

 

the health facility or agency that a child safety seat installed in

 

that individual's vehicle may not be properly installed.

 

     (b) Refer the individual described in subdivision (a) to a

 

child safety seat inspection program or to a child passenger safety

 

technician who has been certified by the national child passenger

 

certification training program.

 

     (2) A health facility or agency shall not prohibit an employee

 

Senate Bill No. 1134 as amended December 3, 2014

 

from doing any of the activities allowed under subsection (1). A

 

health facility or agency shall not dismiss, sanction, or in any

 

other way penalize an employee for doing an activity allowed under

 

subsection (1).

<<(3) A child passenger safety technician who has been certified

by the national child passenger certification training program,

who acts in good faith, and who acts within the scope of the training

for which he or she is currently certified is immune from any civil

liability or criminal penalty.>>