MI HB5155

Department must prepare and distribute medically and factually accurate written information about emergency contraception to all health facilities and agencies providing emergency or urgent care within 30 days of the law's effective date.

Health facilities and agencies providing emergency or urgent care must promptly provide written information about emergency contraception to female victims of criminal sexual conduct of childbearing age and must promptly offer emergency contraception to such patients.

Health facilities and agencies must administer emergency contraception if requested by a female victim of criminal sexual conduct of childbearing age.

Facilities must annually report to the department the number of times emergency contraception is administered to sexual assault victims, without identifying individual patients; reports are confidential and exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Emergency contraception" is defined as any FDA-approved drug, medicine, oral hormonal compound, or device that prevents pregnancy after sexual intercourse, but does not include drugs or devices prescribed to terminate an existing pregnancy.