HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.11.19 - 17911November 19, 1987
Miscellaneous Resolution # 87315
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
RE: (SUPPORT) HOUSE BILL 4980 REQUIRING PHYSICIANS AND HEALTH FACILITIES TO TEST
FOR AIDS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CERTAIN PROCEDURES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, House Bill 4980 adds three new sections to the Michigan Public
Health Code with the intent of providing greater public protection against
AIDS; and
WHEREAS, the bill would require physicians and health facilities which
provide artificial insemination, blood transfusion or organ transplantation
services to test either the donor or the donated tissue, sperm or blood for the
presence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus associated with AIDS;
and
WHEREAS, House Bill 4980 further provides that if the test results for
blood or organ tissue were positive the transfusion or transplant could not
proceed unless both the recipient and the person performing the procedure knew
of the test results and agreed in writing to use the sample or specimen; and
WHEREAS, the bill also provides that sperm donors who donated on a regular
basis would have to be tested at least every three months and if a donor tested
positive his sperm could not be used for artificial insemination; and
WHEREAS, if HB 4980 is enacted, physicians or health facilities who violate
the statute will be liable for damages in a civil action.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
supports House Bill 4980.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to all
legislators from Oakland County and to the county's legislative agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Courp Clerk/Register of Deeds
November 19, 1987
RESOLUTION NO. 87315
Moved by Jensen supported by Ruel McPherson the resolution be
adopted.
AYES: Calandro, Crake, Doyon, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, R. Kuhn,
Lanni, Luxon, A. McPherson, R. McPherson, Moffitt, Page, Pernick, Price,
Rewold, Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution
was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
this Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on Novmeber 19, 1987
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
19th day of / ) November 19 87 this