Health facilities: hospitals; health care cost reduction fund; create. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6116'26, HB 6118'26

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HOUSE BILL NO. 6117

A bill to create the health care cost reduction fund; to
provide for the distribution of money from the fund; and to provide
for the powers and duties of certain state officers and entities.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the "health care cost 1
reduction fund act". 2
Sec. 3. As used in this act: 3
(a) "Department" means the department of licensing and 4
regulatory affairs. 5
(b) "Fund" means the health care cost reduction fund created 6
June 18, 2026, Introduced by Reps. Harris and DeBoyer and referred to Committee on
Government Operations.
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in section 5. 1
(c) "Grant program" means the health care cost grant program 2
created in the hospital cost review board act. 3
Sec. 5. (1) The health care cost reduction fund is created in 4
the state treasury. 5
(2) The state treasurer shall deposit civil fines and 6
assessments recovered under the hospital cost review board act, the 7
health facility consolidation prevention act, and money received 8
from any other source in the fund. The state treasurer shall direct 9
the investment of money in the fund and credit interest and 10
earnings from the investments to the fund. 11
(3) The department is the administrator of the fund for audits 12
of the fund. 13
Sec. 7. The department shall expend money from the fund, on 14
appropriation, only to implement and administer the grant program. 15
Enacting section 1. This act does not take effect unless all 16
of the following bills of the 103rd Legislature are enacted into 17
law: 18
(a) House Bill No. 6116 (request no. H06007'26). 19
(b) House Bill No. 6118 (request no. H06780'26). 20