DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDER                                                                               H.B. 5417, 5418 (H-4), & 5419:

                                                                                                                                                                                                      SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                                        REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 5417 (as reported without amendment)

House Bill 5418 (Substitute H-4 as reported without amendment)

House Bill 5419 (as reported without amendment)

Sponsor:   Representative Rebekah Warren (H.B. 5417 & 5418)

                            Representative Daire Rendon (H.B. 5419)

House Committee:   Judiciary

Senate Committee:   Families, Seniors, and Veterans

CONTENT

House Bill 5417 would amend the Michigan Do-Not-Resuscitate Procedure Act to do the following:

 --       Allow a guardian with the power to execute a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order to execute the order on behalf of a ward who was a minor child.

 --       Require a guardian who executed a DNR order to provide a copy of the order to the administrator of the ward's school or to the administrator's designee, if applicable.

 --       Allow a parent to execute a DNR order on behalf of his or her minor child, and if the parent shared with another parent legal decision-making authority, require both parents to execute the order.

 --       Require a parent who executed an order to maintain possession of the order and, if applicable, provide a copy of the order to the administrator of the minor child's school or to the administrator's designee, or the administrator of a facility in which the minor child was a patient or resident or to the administrator's designee, among other things.

 --       Allow a parent to revoke an order on behalf of a declarant.

 --       Require a form for a DNR order to include a parent consent section that contained certain language prescribed by the bill.

 --       Require an individual who observed a declarant's revocation of a DNR order to deliver it in writing to the administrator of a school, or his or her designee, if the declarant was a pupil of a school.

 --       If the declarant were a minor child who was enrolled and located at a school, prohibit an individual who determined that the declarant was wearing a DNR identification bracelet or had actual notice of a DNR order for the declarant from attempting to resuscitate the declarant before health professionals arrived at his or her location.

House Bill 5418 (H-4) would amend the Revised School Code to do the following:

 --       Require an administrator of a public or nonpublic school, or his or her designee, who received a copy of a DNR order executed under Michigan Do-Not-Resuscitate Procedure Act from a parent or legal guardian of a pupil enrolled in the school to place in a file the order or its revocation and determine if an order from the preceding school year was still in effect, among other things.

 --       Require the administrator, or his or her designee, who received actual notice of a revocation of a DNR order to provide actual notice of the revocation to each teacher or other school employee who provided the instructional or noninstructional services directly to the pupil.