July 26, 2006, Introduced by Senators McMANUS, KUIPERS, ALLEN, BROWN, BIRKHOLZ, GOSCHKA and HAMMERSTROM and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1945 PA 47, entitled
"An act to authorize 2 or more cities, townships, and villages, or
any combination of cities, townships, and villages, to incorporate
a hospital authority for planning, promoting, acquiring,
constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, owning, maintaining,
and operating 1 or more community hospitals and related buildings
or structures and related facilities; to provide for the sale,
lease, or other transfer of a hospital owned by a hospital
authority to a nonprofit corporation established under the laws of
this state for no or nominal monetary consideration; to define
hospitals and community hospitals; to provide for changes in the
membership therein; to authorize the cities, townships, and
villages to levy taxes for community hospital purposes; to provide
for the issuance of bonds; to provide for the pledge of
assessments; to provide for borrowing money for operation and
maintenance and issuing notes for operation and maintenance; to
validate elections heretofore held and notes heretofore issued; to
validate bonds heretofore issued; to authorize condemnation
proceedings; to grant certain powers of a body corporate; to
validate and ratify the organization, existence, and membership of
entities acting as hospital authorities under the act and the
actions taken by hospital authorities and by the members of the
hospital authorities; and to prescribe penalties and provide
remedies,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 331.1).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. (1) Two or more cities, villages, or townships, or a
combination of cities, villages, or townships, by resolution of
their respective legislative bodies, approved by a majority vote of
the qualified electors of each of those cities, villages, or
townships, may join to form a hospital authority and issue bonds
for the purpose of planning, promoting, acquiring, constructing,
improving, enlarging, extending, owning, maintaining, and
operating, either within or without the city, village, or township
limits, 1 or more community hospitals and related buildings or
structures and related facilities, subject to the tax limitation
provided in this act. The power granted in this section shall be
considered an enlargement of a power granted to a city, village, or
township by its respective charter or the laws of this state.
(2) As used in this act, "hospitals" and "community hospitals
and related facilities" mean buildings or structures and related
facilities suitable, intended for, incidental, or ancillary to the
care
of the sick, or wounded,
or elderly, or for the care of
persons requiring medical treatment and buildings or structures and
related facilities shared by 1 or more hospitals, including an
outpatient clinic; an ambulatory care facility; a long-term care
facility; an assisted living facility; a home for the aged; a
senior citizen housing facility; a health and wellness facility; a
diagnostic facility; a shared service facility; a laundry; a
nurse's, doctor's, or intern's residence; an administration
building; a building or structure used for research directly
involved with medical care; a maintenance, storage, or utility
building and related equipment; a parking lot or garage;
furnishings; and the land necessary or convenient for use for the
building or structure; an office facility not less than 80% of
which is intended for lease or use by direct providers of health
care, and which has been determined by the department of public
health to meet a demonstrated need and is geographically or
functionally related to 1 or more hospital facilities, if the
authority determines that the financing of the office facility is
necessary to accomplish the purposes and objectives of this act.