MICAL; REPORTING REQUIREMENTS                                                                                                     H.B. 4043 & 4044:

                                                                                                                                                                                                      SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                                        REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bills 4043 and 4044 (as reported without amendment)

Sponsor:   Representative Mary Whiteford

House Committee:   Health Policy

Senate Committee:   Health Policy and Human Services

CONTENT

House Bill 4044 would amend the Mental Health Code to do the following:

 --       Require the contractor operating or maintaining the Michigan Crisis and Access Line (MiCAL) to inform individuals seeking behavioral health care that electronic inpatient psychiatric bed registry data may not be accurate and bed availability is not guaranteed.

 --       Require a State-operated registry of available inpatient psychiatric beds, crisis residential beds, or substance use disorder beds to report all data collected for that registry to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) or the entity operating or maintaining MiCAL under contract with the DHHS.

 --       Specify that a health facility, health professional, or contractor could not be held civilly or criminally liable for inaccurate registry data that was shared under the bill.

House Bill 4043 would amend the Mental Health Code to require the DHHS to provide all of the information listed on the electronic inpatient psychiatric bed registry to the contractor or entity that operated or maintained MiCAL.

MCL 330.1151 (H.B. 4043)                                                                           Legislative Analyst:   Stephen Jackson

            330.1165 (H.B. 4044)

FISCAL IMPACT

House Bill 4043 would have a minor negative fiscal impact on the DHHS and no fiscal impact on local units of government. Under the bill, the DHHS would have to provide information to the contractor operating MiCAL that the Department already collects. This would result in an increase in administrative requirements, but no additional data collection requirements.

House Bill 4044 would have no fiscal impact on the DHHS and no fiscal impact on local units of government. The bill would have a minor negative fiscal impact on LARA resulting from additional administrative requirements of compiling and transmitting data to the DHHS. This would not add additional data collection requirements as the data required to be provided to the DHHS under the bill already is collected by LARA.

Date Completed:   5-17-21                                                                                             Fiscal Analyst:   Ellyn Ackerman