Michigan Laws 30.407b – Stockpiling of medical supplies by department of health and human services; coordination and distribution during state of disaster or state of emergency; inventory list; use of appropriations; definit
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 30.407b
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 30.402
- Disaster: means an occurrence or threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from a natural or human-made cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, snowstorm, ice storm, tornado, windstorm, wave action, oil spill, water contamination, utility failure, hazardous peacetime radiological incident, major transportation accident, hazardous materials incident, epidemic, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, or hostile military action or paramilitary action, or similar occurrences resulting from terrorist activities, riots, or civil disorders. See Michigan Laws 30.402
- Emergency: means any occasion or instance in which the governor determines state assistance is needed to supplement local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property and the public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the state. See Michigan Laws 30.402
- Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- State of disaster: means an executive order or proclamation that activates the disaster response and recovery aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities affected. See Michigan Laws 30.402
- State of emergency: means an executive order or proclamation that activates the emergency response and recovery aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities affected. See Michigan Laws 30.402
(1) Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the department of health and human services shall, subject to annual appropriation, stockpile medical supplies that are necessary to respond to a state of disaster or a state of emergency within this state.
(2) The department of health and human services shall do all of the following, subject to annual appropriation:
(a) Coordinate and maintain medical supplies that may be necessary to respond to a state of disaster or a state of emergency. The department of health and human services shall use its discretion in implementing this section and shall work with other state departments to maintain the stockpiled medical supplies.
(b) Rotate the stockpiled medical supplies to avoid continued stockpiling of expired medical supplies.
(c) Sell the rotated medical supplies before their expiration date or donate the rotated expired medical supplies to a nonprofit organization, a public safety agency, a long-term care facility or other congregate living health facility, a public health laboratory, or an educational program.
(3) The medical supplies stockpiled by the department of health and human services under subsection (1) must be enough to respond to a state of disaster or a state of emergency for not more than 2 months.
(4) The emergency management division established under section 7a shall assist the department of health and human services with the coordination and distribution of the medical supplies stockpiled under subsection (1) during a state of disaster or a state of emergency within this state.
(5) The department of health and human services shall display a list of the medical supplies inventory, including quantities and expiration dates, on a website that is fully accessible to the public at no cost. The department of health and human services shall maintain the list required under this subsection regardless of whether money is appropriated under this section.
(6) The list of the medical supplies inventory stockpiled under subsection (1) is subject to disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(7) Money appropriated to implement this section must not be used to purchase foreign goods or services if competitively priced and comparable quality American goods or services are available. Preference must first be given to goods or services manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses that are owned and operated by veterans or goods or services that are manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if the goods or services are competitively priced and of comparable quality.
(8) As used in this section:
(a) “Medical personnel” means a health professional, hospital staff, a first responder, or a mortuary science professional, or an individual who works in a medical laboratory or mortuary or provides pathology, histology, necropsy, or autopsy services.
(b) “Medical supplies” means equipment or supplies necessary for the proper and timely implementation of universal or standard precautions by medical personnel in response to the specific medical situation presented in that setting.
(c) “Public safety agency” means a functional division of this state, a public agency, or a county that provides fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services.