HB 4779 MI

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Act No. 47 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 Rep. Wendzel ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4779 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 20187. The People of the State of Michigan enact: Sec. 20187. (1) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a health facility or agency that provides a surgical procedure using heat-producing equipment that is likely to generate surgical smoke plume shall develop and implement a policy that requires the use of a surgical smoke plume evacuation system during a procedure described in this subsection. (2) As used in this section: (a) �Surgical procedure using heat-producing equipment� means any of the following: ( i ) A procedure that uses an electric current to cut, remove, or destroy tissue and control bleeding. ( ii ) A procedure using a laser. ( iii ) Any other procedure that uses heat-generating surgical instruments. (b) �Surgical smoke plume� means a vapor, gas, or harmful particle produced as a byproduct of a surgical procedure using heat-producing equipment. (c) �Surgical smoke plume evacuation system� means a dedicated device that is designed to capture, transport, filter, and neutralize surgical smoke plume at the site of origin and before surgical smoke plume can make ocular contact or contact with the respiratory tract of an individual.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate Approved___________________________________________

____________________________________________________ Governor