2019 Senate Bill 673

Revise psychiatric hospital rationing (“certificate of need”)

Introduced in the Senate

Dec. 4, 2019

Introduced by Sen. Curtis VanderWall (R-35)

To mandate that psychiatric hospitals or units maintain half the beds for “public patients,” meaning people in a county-level mental health mental health social welfare program, or subject to a treatment order signed by a clinical psychiatrist, or deemed by a court to be a threat to themselves or others. See Senate Bills 669 and 672.

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy and Human Services

Feb. 25, 2020

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

Feb. 26, 2020

Passed in the Senate 21 to 16 (details)

Received in the House

Feb. 26, 2020

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy

Sept. 24, 2020

Reported without amendment

Refer to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

Dec. 15, 2020

Reported without amendment

Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.

Dec. 17, 2020

Substitute offered by Rep. Hank Vaupel (R-47)

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance as previously described.

The substitute failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Hank Vaupel (R-47)

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 56 to 46 (details)

To mandate that psychiatric hospitals or units maintain half the beds for “public patients,” meaning people in a county-level mental health mental health social welfare program, or subject to a treatment order signed by a clinical psychiatrist, or deemed by a court to be a threat to themselves or others. See Senate Bills 669 and 672.

Received in the Senate

Dec. 18, 2020

Passed in the Senate 21 to 16 (details)

Vetoed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Dec. 30, 2020