HB-5439, As Passed House, February 28, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 5439

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled

 

"Mental health code,"

 

(MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106) by adding section 151.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 151. (1) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Psychiatric facility" means a psychiatric hospital or

 

psychiatric unit licensed under section 134.

 

     (b) "Registry" means the inpatient psychiatric bed registry

 

created in subsection (2).

 

     (2) The department shall establish and administer an

 

electronic inpatient psychiatric bed registry. The registry shall

 

be a web-based resource to identify available psychiatric beds in

 

this state categorized by patient gender, acuity, age, and

 

diagnosis. The registry must be accessible through the department's

 

website.

 

     (3) The department may, by contract, delegate creating,

 

operating, and maintaining the registry to a private entity.

 

     (4) Psychiatric facilities and other providers determined by

 

the department must provide the department with the number of

 

inpatient psychiatric beds available in those facilities at the

 

time the information is provided. The information must be provided

 

by the psychiatric facilities and other providers on a basis as

 

close to real time as possible. Psychiatric facilities and other

 

providers must provide the department with this information as

 

specified under subsection (7).

 

     (5) The registry shall be made accessible to prepaid inpatient

 

health plans, licensed health plans, community mental health

 

services programs, acute care hospitals, psychiatric facilities,

 

and employees and caregivers with other appropriate providers.

 

     (6) The department shall create a committee to provide

 

guidance on creating, operating, and maintaining the registry. The

 

committee shall include representatives from the following groups:

 

     (a) The department.

 

     (b) The department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

     (c) Psychiatric facilities.

 

     (d) End users of the registry as described under subsection

 

(5).

 

     (e) Consumers, families, and advocates.

 

     (f) Law enforcement.

 

     (7) The department shall establish requirements for

psychiatric facilities and other providers as determined by the

 

department to report information to the department in consultation

 

with the committee established under subsection (6).

 

     (8) The department shall provide quarterly reports on the

 

progress of implementing the registry beginning on the first

 

quarter after the effective date of the amendatory act that added

 

this section. The department must provide these quarterly reports

 

to the chairs of the house and senate committees on health policy

 

and the chairs of the house and senate appropriations subcommittees

 

for the department of health and human services.

 

     (9) The department, in consultation with the committee

 

established under subsection (6), may establish a policy for the

 

secondary use of registry data.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.