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MI SB1080

Bill

Status

Introduced

6/14/2022

Primary Sponsor

Sean McCann

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Origin

Senate

101st Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes the "Overdose Fatality Review Act" allowing counties to create multidisciplinary overdose fatality review teams to investigate drug overdose deaths and identify prevention strategies.

  • Overdose fatality review teams must include county health officers, prosecutors, mental health directors, medical examiners, law enforcement, substance use disorder treatment providers, and may include emergency services, corrections, and recovery community representatives.

  • Teams shall conduct individual overdose reviews examining the deceased's contact with health care, social services, criminal justice, and other systems to identify risk factors and social determinants contributing to overdose deaths.

  • Requires participating entities to provide medical records, death investigation information, law enforcement records, court records, and social services information within 5 business days of written request from the team chairperson; teams may charge fees consistent with public records requests.

  • All information obtained by review teams is confidential and exempt from discovery, freedom of information requests, and subpoena (except for records available from other sources); teams submit annual reports without identifying information to the state health department for aggregation and reporting to the governor and legislature.

Legislative Description

Health: controlled substances; overdose fatality review act; create. Creates new act.

Health: controlled substances

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Health Policy And Human Services

6/14/2022

Committee Referrals

Health Policy And Human Services6/14/2022

Full Bill Text

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