HOUSE BILL No. 6524

 

 

November 27, 2018, Introduced by Rep. LaFave and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

 

"Corrections code of 1953,"

 

by amending section 67a (MCL 791.267a), as added by 1996 PA 234.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 67a. (1) A Except as provided under subsections (2) and

 

(4), a prisoner who receives nonemergency medical, dental, or

 

optometric services at his or her request is responsible for a

 

copayment fee to the department for those services, as determined

 

by the department. If the prisoner is a minor, the prisoner's

 

parent or guardian is also responsible for a copayment fee imposed

 

under this section.

 

     (2) A prisoner who intentionally injures himself or herself,

 

and receives emergency medical care for that injury, is responsible

 


for the entire cost of the medical care. , rather than the

 

copayment described in subsection (1).

 

     (3) The department shall determine whether those the prisoners

 

who injure themselves intentionally shall will be housed in a

 

facility designed to allow on-site medical treatment of those

 

injuries. Not later than 6 months after the effective date of this

 

section, September 30, 1997, the director of the department shall

 

report to the legislature on the feasibility and cost of

 

implementing this subsection.

 

     (4) A prisoner who receives gender reassignment surgery at his

 

or her request is responsible for the entire cost of the treatment.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.