Controlled substances: schedules; scheduling of certain controlled substances; modify, the official text

Act No. 48

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 Wojno

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 716

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,” by amending section 7204 (MCL 333.7204), as amended by
2012 PA 182.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec. 7204. If a substance is designated,
rescheduled, or deleted as a controlled substance under federal law and notice
of that designation, rescheduling, or deletion is given to the administrator,
the substance must be similarly scheduled under section 7201 unless the
administrator holds a board meeting not more than 60 days after notice is
received to determine whether the substance should be similarly controlled
under section 7201. If the administrator decides not to similarly schedule the
substance, the administrator shall, not more than 60 days after that decision
is made, publish the reasons for that determination.

This act is ordered to take
immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor