Year: 2018
Resolution Number: 84
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status: In Progress
Author(s): Megan Edison, MD, and Jayne Courts, MD
Sponsor: Lee P. Begrow, DO
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: B (Legislation)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with the Michigan Legislature to amend the Michigan Public Health Code to require the state Board of Medicine to report criminal sexual conduct or predatory sexual behavior to the appropriate law enforcement agencies; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Federation of State Medical Boards to create and encourage state adoption of œmodel public health code language that would require all state medical boards to report criminal sexual conduct or predatory sexual behavior to appropriate law enforcement authorities.
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with the Michigan Legislature to amend the Michigan Public Health Code to require the state Board of Medicine to report criminal sexual conduct or predatory sexual behavior to the appropriate law enforcement agencies; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Federation of State Medical Boards to create and encourage state adoption of œmodel public health code language that would require all state medical boards to report criminal sexual conduct or predatory sexual behavior to appropriate law enforcement authorities.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Report Health Care Provider Sex Crimes to Law Enforcement
For More Information, Contact:
Christin Nohner
, Director, State and Federal Government Relations
Government Relations
517-336-5737
cnohner@msms.org