Health: anatomical gifts; certain private practice offices and urgent care clinics to provide information on the donor registry and donating bone marrow; allow, the official text

Act No. 50

Public Acts of 2026

Approved by the Governor

July 21, 2026

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 23, 2026

EFFECTIVE
DATE: July 23, 2026

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2026

Introduced by Senator Daley

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 205

AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368,
entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise,
consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to
provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide
for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance
of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create
or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards,
commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to
prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to
regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to
regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party
administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee;
to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies;
to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to
provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services,
and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or
services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to
provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from
liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug
paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of
federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions
for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an
appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to
repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on
specific dates,” (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 10401.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec.
10401. (1) A physician’s private practice office or an urgent care center may
do both of the following:

(a) Inquire of each new patient who is at least 18 years old
and less than 45 years old, either verbally or on a written or electronic form,
whether the patient is interested in information on donating bone marrow and,
upon the patient’s request, provide the patient with information on becoming a
bone marrow donor. If information is provided under this subdivision, it must
include contact information for bone marrow donation programs in this state.

(b) Inquire of each new patient, either verbally or on a
written or electronic form, whether the patient is interested in information on
the organ and tissue donor registry and, upon the patient’s request, provide
the patient with educational materials explaining the right to make an
anatomical gift under part 101, information describing the organ and tissue donor
registry, and information on how to have the patient’s name placed in the organ
and tissue donor registry. If information is provided under this subdivision,
it must include contact information for this state’s federally designated organ
procurement organization or its successor organization as described in section
10120.

(2) The materials and information described in this section
may be provided to the patient orally or in written or electronic form.

(3) As used in this section:

(a)
“Anatomical gift” means that term as defined in section 10102.

(b)
“Organ and tissue donor registry” means the donor registry as that term is
defined in section 10102.

This act is ordered to take
immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor