MI House - Health Policy Committee Agendas - Michigan Healthcare Freedom Forum

H Health Policy Cmte Sept 2026: EMS license for 17-yo, new anesthesia license, APRN preceptor tax credit

Abigail Nobel — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:14:50 +0000

Do you want a 17-year-old starting your IV or giving you CPR next time you need EMS? There's a shortage, but....

How does another healthcare cost-driver strike you?

Another tax credit for Michigan's income tax code?

These could all become reality, given passage of bills heard today in the House Committee on Health Policy, Rep. Curtis VanderWall, Chair.

Bill home pages as linked will reflect any advancing progress. There, arrows allow toggling to next or previous bills in a series.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 4832 (Rep. Prestin)
Health occupations: health professionals; licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; provide for.

HB 5488 (Rep. Witwer)
Health occupations: emergency medical services personnel; licensure of medical first responders and emergency medical technicians; allow at 17 years of age.

HB 5489 (Rep. Prestin)
Health occupations: emergency medical services personnel; licensure of medical first responders and emergency medical technicians; allow at 17 years of age.

HB 6156 (Rep. Thompson)
Individual income tax: credit; credit for certain advanced practice registered nurses who serve as a preceptor; provide for.

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H Family & Vets Sept 2026: Adult Foster Care bills

Abigail Nobel — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:08:39 +0000

There are about 4,800 licensed adult foster care homes throughout the state of Michigan - or somewhat over 2000, depending on which source you use. These homes serve nearly 40,000 residents.

2081 - the Agesong Directory: https://agesong.com/states/michigan/
The State of Michigan AFC home page with text file download
https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/bchs/adult/online-lookups/statewide-text-file-of-adult-foster-care-homes-for-the-aged-facilities

That means a lot of ripples for the House Committee on Families and Veterans to consider as it takes up a package of Adult Foster Care bills tomorrow, with Rep. Kathy Schmaltz, Chair.

Will they make care more expensive? Lighten the regulotry load? Time will tell.

The home page for the first bill provides a "next bill" arrow to click.

https://legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-6320

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 12:00 PM

AGENDA

HB 6320 (Rep. Young)
Human services: adult foster care; enhanced standards on adult foster care facilities; provide for.

HB 6321 (Rep. Wozniak)
Human services: adult foster care; enhanced standards on adult foster care facilities; provide for.

HB 6322 (Rep. Hoskins)
Human services: adult foster care; enhanced standards on adult foster care facilities; provide for.

Presentation- Mike Brandow, Veteran and Founder, Camp Valor Adventure Healing

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House Health Policy Aug 2026: banning health facility fees

Abigail Nobel — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:08:34 +0000

We've all scowled at that line on the medical bill. What on earth is the facility fee?! It feels immoral, like a tax on breathing the hospital's air while getting the MRI, lab work, or procedure you came for.

Hospitals come in all sizes and operating margins, of course. People debate whether their survival depends on the facility fee.

Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms is mapping states that ban them.

So you decide. Will a ban lower hospital bills? Or would they just roll that line item into other charges?

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 8:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 5770 (Rep. VanderWall)

Health facilities: other; facility fees; prohibit under certain circumstances.

Edited to add the bill link:

https://legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2026-HB-5770

House Family & Vets June 2026: exceptions to definition of child neglect

Abigail Nobel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:35:47 +0000

Increasingly, parental rights in their child's healthcare are challenged by clinicians, social workers, and other healthcare system factotums. At times, they cite state child abuse/neglect laws.

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.

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House Govt Ops June 2026: Robert Gordon COVID severance pay bill, executive branch transparency

Abigail Nobel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:35:41 +0000

Robert Gordon's COVID firing and secretive severance pay kerfuffle exiting the MDHHS director role are probably the sole reason for HB 6009 in next week's agenda.

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.

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House HPol June 2026: organ donation, minor patient records, pharmacist recruitment, mental health screening, controlled substance federal alignment

Abigail Nobel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:51:13 +0000

The House takes up new bills, plus from the Senate state promotion of organ donation and (sort of) aligning controlled substances with federal scheduling.

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.

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House Govt Ops June 2026: work requirements for SNAP, Medicaid error reports

Abigail Nobel — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:53:57 +0000

Medicaid anti-fraud bills hit committee next week.

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.

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House HPOL June: blood lead level mandates, baby food, Medicaid PBMs, CON radiology, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental health screening

Abigail Nobel — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:10:24 +0000

They're back! Michigan's new child lead level laws prove all over again that detailed health policy requires frequent tweaking.

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.

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Fam & Vets Cmte June 2026: Ibogaine MDHHS grants for clinical drug trials, child care provider advisory council

Abigail Nobel — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:04 +0000

"The ibogaine grant program is created in the department of health and human services to provide grants for certified clinical drug development trials overseen by the United States Food and Drug Administration on the use of ibogaine to treat opioid use disorder, co-occurring substance use disorder, or any other neurological or mental health condition for which ibogaine demonstrates efficacy in treatment."

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

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Health Pol agenda May 13: medical record fees, certificate of need hospital swing beds include behavioral health

Abigail Nobel — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:33:35 +0000

A 50% increase in the allowed medical record fees benefits who, exactly? The hospitals.

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.

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