Senate Housing and Human Services Cmte May June 2025: MDHHS medical service agreements, mobile home water

SB 266 - MDHHS uses medical service agreements to monitor Medicaid applicants for signs of divestment (giving away assets in order to qualify for aid). According to testimony, MDHHS is not always impartial or consistent in its divestment determinations.

Items with no apparent health policy impact are italicized.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025     12:00 noon

AGENDA

SB 46 Sen. Irwin Water supply: systems; mobile home park water delivery systems; regulate.

SB 278 Sen. Shink Housing: other; housing and community development fund; modify. [administered under LEO]

SB 266 Sen. Hertel Human services: medical services; certain personal service agreements; allow.

And any other business properly before the committee.

SB 46 - Some pertinent snippets from Senate Fiscal Agency (SFA) analysis:

"Under the Act, if a public water supply poses an imminent hazard to the public health, EGLE may issue an emergency order immediately, without notice or hearing, requiring such action as EGLE determines necessary to protect the public health. Under the bill, if a waterworks system posed an immediate threat to the public health, EGLE could issue an emergency order immediately, without notice or requiring a hearing, that required the supplier of water or the owner of customer site piping at a mobile home or seasonal mobile home park to take any action EGLE determined necessary to protect the public health."

"The bill would have a negative fiscal impact on EGLE. The extent of this impact would include administrative and staffing costs which would depend on the number of complaints received that necessitated inspections, as well as the number of hearings that could be held in response to EGLE orders. The bill would significantly increase the number of waterworks systems overseen by EGLE. Estimates from EGLE indicate that implementation would require 3.0 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), and the average cost of an FTE in fiscal year 2024-25 is $138,900 annually. This means that the anticipated staffing costs would be roughly $416,700 annually. "

Tuesday, June 3, 2025     12:00 noon

AGENDA

SB 266 Sen. Hertel Human services: medical services; certain personal service agreements; allow.

SB 19 Sen. Anthony Housing: landlord and tenants; tenants rights to repair; provide for.

SB 20 Sen. Anthony Housing: landlord and tenants; cross-reference to the revised statutes of 1846; remove.

SB 21 Sen. Anthony Housing: landlord and tenants; prohibition against tenants right to repair; disallow in truth and renting act.

SB 22 Sen. Anthony Housing: landlord and tenants; return of security deposit by electronic transfer; allow.

And any other business properly before the committee.

SB 19 cites health and safety, but is actually about local economic woes popping up in Lansing's construction codes for rentals.