March 20, 2012, Introduced by Senators MEEKHOF, MARLEAU, BRANDENBURG, HANSEN, HILDENBRAND, SCHUITMAKER, PROOS, ROCCA, BOOHER, PAVLOV, RICHARDVILLE, KOWALL and JONES 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 section 16278.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 16278. (1) A health care professional licensed or
registered under this article providing prenatal health care
services to a patient who is a pregnant woman shall, within the
standard of care, inform that patient, between the twentieth and
twenty-eighth weeks of gestation, of the potential risk of
stillbirth. This section does not apply to a health care
professional who provides nonprenatal, emergency, or nonprimary
health care services to a patient who is a pregnant woman.
(2) Healthy birth day or first candle may make written
information available regarding the potential risk of stillbirth.
If it makes written information available under this section and if
resources are available to do so, healthy birth day or first candle
may do all of the following:
(a) Include preventive measures applicable to the risk of
stillbirth, including awareness of decreased fetal movements and
counting fetal kicks to reduce that risk.
(b) Assure that the information is written in easily
understood, nontechnical terms.
(c) Upon request, make the written information available free
of charge to the Michigan board of medicine, the Michigan board of
osteopathic medicine and surgery, health professionals required to
comply with subsection (1), and local health departments.
(3) If healthy birth day or first candle makes written
information available under this section, it may make available
copies of the written information in English, Spanish, and other
languages.
(4) The department may provide the information described in
subsection (2) or other information regarding stillbirth on its
website.
(5) As used in this section, "stillbirth" means intrauterine
fetal death.
(6) This section may be referred to as "Skylar's law".
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect July 1,
2012.