When nobody knows anything for sure, we can't trust the healthcare system. Judges won't get it right, either.

That's when law gets hyper-detailed chasing past wrongs to prevent them for the future. This one bears close watching

Tuesday, June 23, 2026     12:00 PM

AGENDA

HB 5163 (Rep. Wortz)
Children: child abuse or child neglect; exceptions to the definition of child neglect; provide.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

If you see a health policy link to either of the other bills, please let me know so I can update the post.

Thursday, June 11, 2026      9:00 AM

AGENDA

SB 102 (Sen. Wojno)
Counties: employees and officers; request for transcript and abstract of paper or record; modify.

HB 5506 (Rep. Kuhn)
Public employees and officers: ethics; certain local officials acting as lobbyists outside of the course and scope of the official's office; prohibit.

HB 6009 (Rep. Roth)
Public employees and officers: compensation and benefits; severance pay for executive and legislative branch employees and officers; limit, and require reporting if greater than a certain amount.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 10, 2026     9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 5974 (Rep. Aragona)
Health: medical records; rights of a minor patient; modify.

HB 5985 (Rep. Kunse)
Health occupations: pharmacists; Michigan essential health provider recruitment strategy; expand to include pharmacists.

HB 6022 (Rep. VanderWall)
Mental health: other; authority for prescreening individuals for mental health services; modify.

SB 205 (Sen. Daley)
Health: anatomical gifts; certain private practice offices and urgent care clinics to provide information on the donor registry and donating bone marrow; allow.

SB 716 (Sen. Wojno)
Controlled substances: schedules; scheduling of certain controlled substances; modify.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

Non-health bills are italicized; health policy bills are in bold.

Thursday, June 4, 2026       9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 5123 (Rep. Harris)
Communications: video services; definition of video service; modify.

HB 5124 (Rep. Snyder)
Communications: video services; requirements for video services reports; modify.

SB 102 (Sen. Wojno)
Counties: employees and officers; request for transcript and abstract of paper or record; modify.

HB 5812 (Rep. Thompson)
Human services: food assistance; authorization for waiver of work requirements for SNAP benefits; require.

HB 5813 (Rep. Woolford)
Human services: medical services; reporting of error rate regarding Medicaid; require.

HB 5506 (Rep. Kuhn)
Public employees and officers: ethics; certain local officials acting as lobbyists outside of the course and scope of the official's office; prohibit.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

While dropping acceptable levels to an impossible low, the first bill also stabilizes policy by installing a current-CDC-standard override.

Call me fanciful, but this bill list gives me a vibe of "last hurrah before campaign season."

Wednesday, June 3, 2026     9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 4864 (Rep. Rogers)
Health: children; definition of elevated blood lead level; modify.

HB 4865 (Rep. Jaime Greene)
Food: other; testing of baby foods for heavy metals; require.

HB 5303 (Rep. Farhat)
Human services: medical services; Medicaid managed care contract with pharmacy benefit manager; modify.

HB 5709 (Rep. Roth)
Health facilities: certificate of need; certificate of need requirements for certain outpatient imaging centers; modify.

HB 5773 (Rep. Cavitt)
Health occupations: health professionals; referral of patients to a diagnostic center for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; require under certain circumstances.

HB 5774 (Rep. Young)
Health: children; referral of certain children to the early on program; require.

HB 5975 (Rep. Fox)
Children: health; referral of certain children with elevated blood lead levels to the Early On program administered by the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential; require.

HB 6022 (Rep. VanderWall)
Mental health: other; authority for prescreening individuals for mental health services; modify.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduced/House/pdf/2026-HIB-6020.pdf

Ibogaine grants and yet another advisory council in House Committee on Families and Veterans next week.

Tuesday, June 2, 2026     12:00 PM

AGENDA

HB 5723 (Rep. Meerman)
Children: child care; provider advisory council; establish.

HB 6020 (Rep. Jaime Greene)
Health: research; participation in ibogaine clinical trials; provide for.

Presentation from Jon Turnbull on his military experiences

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

Hospitals will argue inflation, everything costs more, we're losing money, etc.

I reply: fees at independent radiology centers (like Basha Diagnostics in SE Michigan, and The Imaging Center in West MI) include a CD of images plus the written report, and still beat hospital prices.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026      9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 5681 (Rep. Phil Green)
Health: medical records; medical record fees; modify.

HB 5903 (Rep. Bierlein)
Health facilities: certificate of need; allowable use of hospital swing beds; expand to include behavioral health patients.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 28, 2026     12:00 PM

AGENDA

HB 5739 (Rep. DeBoyer)
Probate: guardians and conservators; powers and duties; modify.

HB 5740 (Rep. Schmaltz)
Probate: guardians and conservators; requirements upon discovery of certain assets; provide for.

HB 5678 (Rep. Rogers)
Health facilities: nursing homes; requirement for unlicensed personnel in nursing homes to complete fall prevention training established by the department; provide for.

HB 5679 (Rep. Meerman)
Labor: job training; fall prevention training; require employers to pay wages to employees for participating in.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

• add time to licensing terms, and renewals
• empower LARA with discretion to "toll" certain licenses if hardship is proven "to the satisfaction of the department."

At what point do we just admit that limited licensing is a failed experiment?

It extends shortages; it keeps control with the "in" crowd and state government instead of the patient and clinician at the point of care; and in the end, one either qualifies for full licensing (even to a lower standard), or one does not.

Equally disturbing are bills that set up pediatric care for higher costs and shortages through insurance mandates (4% added to each premium per mandate) and facility licensing (restricting market supply). 

Medical debt facts posted in previous senate bill hearings. 

Wednesday, April 15, 2026     9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 5074 (Rep. Thompson)
Health occupations: mental health care professionals; number of renewals of temporary or limited licenses; modify.

HB 5251 (Rep. VanderWall)
Human services: medical services; coverage for prescribed pediatric extended care; require.

HB 5252 (Rep. Rogers)
Health facilities: licensing; licensing of prescribed pediatric extended care facilities; provide for.

HB 5254 (Rep. Rigas)
Consumer credit: interest rates; maximum interest rate allowed for medical debt; modify.

HB 5255 (Rep. Pohutsky)
Civil procedure: foreclosure; foreclosure or garnishment of wages for medical debt; prohibit.

SB 449 (Sen. Anthony)
Health facilities: hospitals; hospital financial assistance act; enact.

SB 450 (Sen. Lindsey)
Health facilities: hospitals; certain hospital financial assistance policies; make subject to the hospital financial assistance act.

SB 451 (Sen. Anthony)
Consumer credit: credit reports and reporting agencies; collection and reporting of medical debt information; regulate.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

I wrote in 2022:

"Congress repealed the Johnson-era federal CON law in 1986.

Michigan’s CON law persists. Dozens of amendments later, it is highly complex and expensive. Sliding scale fees doubled in 2013. Approval from the politically-appointed CON board can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to a planned hospital, HMO, surgical center, hospice, AFC, retirement home, laboratory, or EMS."

https://mihealthfreedom.org/michigan-should-repeal-con-in-2022/

Here, Michigan is nibbling at the edges of CON. It should eliminate the whole body of law.

HB 5709 and HB 5770 have been routed to the House Health Policy Committee. No hearing date set yet.

https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-news/michigan-bills-target-outpatient-fees-con-requirements/

Michigan bills target outpatient fees, CON requirements

Sophie Eydis    |    March 20, 2026

Michigan lawmakers are weighing legislation that would eliminate hospital outpatient facility fees and loosen certificate-of-need requirements for imaging services.

House Bill 5770, introduced March 19, would prohibit hospital outpatient departments from collecting facility fees. The Michigan Health & Hospital Association opposes the bill, arguing such fees offset the cost of 24/7 services, higher-acuity care and support for underserved populations. The MHA warned that site-neutral payment policies could jeopardize patient access to hospital-based outpatient care, according to a March 20 news release.

Separately, House Bill 5709 would eliminate CON requirements for certain imaging services at outpatient centers. The MHA said the change could drive up costs and reduce access in rural and underserved areas by fragmenting service delivery.

Separately, the MHA also reported bills restricting mandatory nurse overtime advanced in the Senate, and legislation to expand assisted outpatient treatment passed the House.