Bill Text: MI HB4605 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Occupations; emergency medical services personnel; use of certain military experience as the basis for licensure as an emergency medical technician; authorize, and waive certain fees. Amends sec. 20950 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20950).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: (Passed) 2013-11-13 - Assigned Pa 165'13 With Immediate Effect [HB4605 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4605-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4605
April 23, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Haines, Kowall, O'Brien, Glardon, McCready, Crawford, Victory, Muxlow, Yonker, Kesto, Tlaib, Hobbs, Foster and Haugh and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 20950 (MCL 333.20950), as amended by 2006 PA
568.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 20950. (1) An individual shall not practice or advertise
to practice as a medical first responder, emergency medical
technician, emergency medical technician specialist, paramedic, or
emergency medical services instructor-coordinator unless licensed
to do so by the department.
(2) The department shall issue a license under this section
only to an individual who meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Is 18 years of age or older.
(b) Meets either of the following requirements:
(i) (b)
Has successfully completed the
appropriate education
program approved under section 20912.
(ii) While on active duty as a member of the armed forces,
served as a military health care specialist and was honorably
discharged from that military service in the 2-year period
preceding the date the license application is filed. This
subparagraph only applies to an individual who is applying for a
license as an emergency medical technician. As used in this
subparagraph, "armed forces" means that term as defined in section
2 of the veteran right to employment services act, 1994 PA 39, MCL
35.1092.
(c) Subject to subsection (3), has attained a passing score on
the appropriate department prescribed examination and has paid the
fee, as follows:
(i) A medical first responder shall must pass
the written
examination proctored by the department or the department's
designee and a practical examination approved by the department.
The practical examination shall be administered by the instructors
of the medical first responder course. The department or the
department's designee may also proctor the practical examination.
(ii) An emergency medical technician, emergency medical
technician
specialist, and a or paramedic shall must pass
the
written examination proctored by the department or the department's
designee and a practical examination proctored by the department or
the department's designee.
(iii) The fee for the written examinations required under
subparagraphs (i) and (ii) shall be paid directly to the national
registry of emergency medical technicians or other organization
approved by the department.
(d)
Meets other Other requirements of this part.
(3) The department shall require for purposes of compliance
with subsection (2)(c) successful passage by each first-time
applicant
of an examination. as that term is defined in section
20904(10).
(4) The department shall issue a license as an emergency
medical services instructor-coordinator only to an individual who
meets the requirements of subsection (2) for an emergency medical
services instructor-coordinator and at the time of application is
currently licensed as a medical first responder, emergency medical
technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic
and has at least 3 years' field experience with a licensed life
support agency as a medical first responder, emergency medical
technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic.
The department shall provide for the development and administration
of an examination for emergency medical services instructor-
coordinators. The license shall specify the level of instruction-
coordination the individual is licensed to provide. An emergency
medical services instructor-coordinator shall not instruct or
coordinate emergency medical training courses at a level that
exceeds his or her designated level of licensure and for which he
or she does not have at least 3 years' field experience at that
level of licensure.
(5)
Except as otherwise provided by in section 20952, a
license under this section is effective for 3 years from the date
of issuance unless revoked or suspended by the department.
(6) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7), an
applicant for licensure under this section shall pay the following
triennial licensure fees:
(a) Medical first responder - no fee.
(b) Emergency medical technician - $40.00.
(c) Emergency medical technician specialist - $60.00.
(d) Paramedic - $80.00.
(e) Emergency medical services instructor-coordinator -
$100.00.
(7) If a life support agency certifies to the department that
an applicant for licensure under this section will act as a
volunteer and if the life support agency does not charge for its
services, the department shall not require the applicant to pay the
fee required under subsection (6). If the applicant ceases to meet
the definition of a volunteer under this part at any time during
the effective period of his or her license and is employed as a
licensee under this part, the applicant shall at that time pay the
fee required under subsection (6).
