STATE OF MICHIGAN

94TH LEGISLATURE 

REGULAR SESSION OF 2008

Introduced by Reps. Donigan, Polidori, Condino, Alma Smith and Leland

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6307

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 16631.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 16631. (1) Except as otherwise provided, this section applies to a dentist who uses dental amalgam and to a

dentist who removes dental amalgam. This section does not apply to any of the following:

(a) Oral and maxillofacial surgeons.

(b) Oral and maxillofacial radiologists.

(c) Oral pathologists.

(d) Orthodontists.

(e) Periodontists.

(f) Dentists while providing services in a dental school, in a hospital, or through a local health department.

(2) On or before December 31, 2013, a dentist described in subsection (1) shall install or have installed and use on

each wastewater drain in the dentist’s office that is used to discharge dental amalgam a separator that has an efficiency

of 95% or more as determined through testing in accordance with standards published by the international organization

for standardization in ISO 11143:2008 “Dental equipment — Amalgam separators”.

(3) On or before the expiration of 90 days after the effective date of this section, the department, in consultation with

the department of environmental quality, shall promulgate rules regarding best management practice for dental

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amalgam collection, disposal, and recycling and the retention and inspection of dental office records regarding the

following:

(a) The make, model, and type of dental amalgam separator installed and in use in the office.

(b) The method used to dispose of or recycle the dental amalgam waste collected.

(c) The shipping or other delivery records documenting the transfer of the dental amalgam waste collected to

licensed recyclers or disposers.

(d) The proper operation of the dental amalgam separator, including scheduled maintenance as specified in the

manufacturer’s owner’s manual for that separator.

(e) Compliance with dental amalgam best management practices.

(4) A violation of subsection (1) or (2) or a rule promulgated under subsection (3) is a violation of section 16221(h).

(5) Beginning on the effective date of this section and subject to this subsection, this section preempts and supersedes

any local ordinance, regulation, or resolution that imposes conflicting, different, or additional standards or requirements

on dentists than those contained in this section or rules promulgated by the board under this section. A local unit of

government may enact, adopt, maintain, amend, or enforce an ordinance, regulation, or resolution that requires

implementation of the requirement in subsections (2) and (3) before the date required in subsection (2). A local unit of

government shall not enact, adopt, maintain, or enforce an ordinance, regulation, or resolution that imposes conflicting,

different, or additional standards or requirements on dentists than those contained in this section or rules promulgated

by the board under this section, including, but not limited to, the requirement to obtain a permit that limits the

discharge of mercury into wastewater with a limitation greater than that capable of being achieved by full compliance

with this section.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor