January 26, 2006, Introduced by Senators ALLEN, BIRKHOLZ, GILBERT, KUIPERS, GOSCHKA, GARCIA, STAMAS, VAN WOERKOM, SANBORN, PATTERSON, HARDIMAN, McMANUS, JELINEK, BISHOP, BARCIA, CROPSEY, BROWN and OLSHOVE and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 13807 (MCL 333.13807), as added by 1990 PA 21.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 13807. (1) "Pathogen" means a microorganism that produces
disease.
(2) "Pathological waste" means human organs, tissues, body
parts other than teeth, products of conception, and fluids removed
by trauma or during surgery or autopsy or other medical procedure,
and not fixed in formaldehyde.
(3) "Point of generation" means the point at which medical
waste leaves the producing facility site.
(4) "Producing facility" means a facility that generates,
stores, decontaminates, or incinerates medical waste.
(5) "Products of conception" means any tissues or fluids,
placenta, umbilical cord, or other uterine contents resulting from
a pregnancy. Products of conception do not include a fetus or fetal
body parts.
(6) (5)
"Release" means any spilling, leaking,
pumping,
pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping,
leaching, dumping, or disposing of medical waste into the
environment in violation of this part.
(7) (6)
"Response activity" means an activity
necessary to
protect the public health, safety, welfare, and the environment,
and includes, but is not limited to, evaluation, cleanup, removal,
containment, isolation, treatment, monitoring, maintenance,
replacement of water supplies, and temporary relocation of people.
(8) (7)
"Sharps" means needles, syringes,
scalpels, and
intravenous tubing with needles attached.
(9) (8)
"Storage" means the containment of medical
waste in
a manner that does not constitute disposal of the medical waste.
(10) (9)
"Transport" means the movement of medical
waste
from the point of generation to any intermediate point and finally
to the point of treatment or disposal. Transport does not include
the movement of medical waste from a health facility or agency to
another health facility or agency for the purposes of testing and
research.