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MichiganHB 40782025-2026 Regular SessionHouse
Health: medical examiners; requirements for an investigation of the cause and manner of death; modify. Amends secs. 2 & 3 of 1953 PA 181 (MCL 52.202 & 52.203). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4077'25Last Action: assigned PA 004'26 with immediate effect
Sponsored By: Mike Mueller (Republican)
Became Law
Health: medical examinersRecords: vital recordsCounties: boards and commissions
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Bill Overview
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Clinicians must report certain deaths
A physician, hospital leader, or the first person with knowledge must immediately notify the county medical examiner about sudden, unexpected, accidental, violent, or suspicious deaths. They must also report deaths with no medical attendance in the 48 hours before death, unless the attending physician can determine the cause. Deaths from abortion, whether self-induced or not, must be reported. If two or more people in the same incident look very similar, the notifier must say if any survived, name the hospital, and make sure the hospital knows it was a multi-person incident. No duplicate call is needed if you know it was already reported.
Reviews of suspicious elderly deaths
If a local elder and vulnerable adult death review team exists, the medical examiner may refer unexpected or suspicious elderly or vulnerable adult deaths to that team. The team’s information is confidential. It may be shared only with the medical examiner, the county prosecutor, local law enforcement, or another review team. These records are exempt from FOIA.
When examiners must investigate deaths
County medical examiners must investigate deaths that are violent or unexpected. They also investigate deaths with no physician in the prior year, and home hospice deaths with no physician or registered nurse in the last 48 hours. This duty does not apply when an attending physician or authorized representative can determine the cause of death. When someone dies in a county or city jail, the examiner must examine the body after being told.
Stronger tools and privacy for death investigations
County medical examiners can ask a circuit court to subpoena records and items needed for a death investigation. Courts can treat ignoring these subpoenas as contempt. Records and items examiners get during an investigation are confidential and exempt from public release under the state FOIA.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Mike Mueller
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Carol Glanville
Democratic • House
Carrie Rheingans
Democratic • House
Curtis VanderWall
Republican • House
Cynthia Neeley
Democratic • House
Donavan McKinney
Democratic • House
Douglas Wozniak
Republican • House
Erin Byrnes
Democratic • House
Jason Hoskins
Democratic • House
Jason Morgan
Democratic • House
Jennifer Conlin
Democratic • House
Joey Andrews
Democratic • House
Kathy Schmaltz
Republican • House
Matt Longjohn
Democratic • House
Mike McFall
Democratic • House
Morgan Foreman
Democratic • House
Pat Outman
Republican • House
Penelope Tsernoglou
Democratic • House
Reggie Miller
Democratic • House
Samantha Steckloff
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/4/2026
PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT
Yes: 36 • No: 0 • Other: 1
House vote • 4/22/2025
passed; given immediate effect
Yes: 106 • No: 2 • Other: 2
Actions Timeline
assigned PA 004'26 with immediate effect
3/18/2026Housefiled with Secretary of State 03/17/2026 01:17 PM
3/18/2026Houseapproved by the Governor 03/17/2026 10:32 AM
3/18/2026Housepresented to the Governor 03/09/2026 01:02 PM
3/10/2026Housebill ordered enrolled
3/5/2026Housereturned from Senate without amendment with immediate effect
3/5/2026HouseRETURNED TO HOUSE
3/4/2026HousePASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 20 YEAS 36 NAYS 0 EXCUSED 1 NOT VOTING 0
3/4/2026SenatePLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING
2/18/2026SenateREPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT(S)
2/18/2026SenateREFERRED TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
11/13/2025SenateREPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT 11/12/2025
11/13/2025SenateREFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH POLICY
4/29/2025SenatePASSED BY HOUSE WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
4/29/2025Housetransmitted
4/22/2025Housepassed; given immediate effect Roll Call #58 Yeas 106 Nays 2 Excused 0 Not Voting 2
4/22/2025Houseread a third time
4/22/2025Houseplaced on immediate passage
4/22/2025Houseplaced on third reading
4/22/2025Houseread a second time
4/22/2025Housereferred to second reading
3/12/2025Housereported with recommendation without amendment
3/12/2025Housebill electronically reproduced 02/12/2025
2/13/2025Housereferred to Committee on Health Policy
2/12/2025Houseread a first time
2/12/2025House
Bill Text
Public Act
3/17/2026
House Concurred
3/5/2026
As Passed by the Senate
3/4/2026
As Passed by the House
4/22/2025
Introduced
2/12/2025
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