HOUSE BILL No. 5365

February 16, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Hovey-Wright, Brinks, Plawecki, Chang, Singh, Zemke, LaVoy, Rutledge, Greig, Faris, Gay-Dagnogo, Byrd, Banks, Liberati, Potvin and Pagel 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, 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.