Bill Text: MI SB0514 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Occupations; respiratory therapists; licensure of respiratory care therapists; repeal, and rescind administrative rules. Amends sec. 16186 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16186); adds sec. 16152 & repeals sec. 16344 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16344) & repeals pt. 187 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.18701 - 333.18713).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-09-18 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB0514 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0514-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 514

 

 

September 18, 2013, Introduced by Senator CASPERSON and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

by amending section 16186 (MCL 333.16186), as amended by 2006 PA

 

398, and by adding section 16152; and to repeal acts and parts of

 

acts.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 16152. R 338.2201 to R 338.2207 of the Michigan

 

administrative code are rescinded.

 

     Sec. 16186. (1) An individual who is licensed to practice a

 

health profession in another state or, until January 1, 2012, is

 

licensed to practice a health profession in a province of Canada,

 

who is registered in another state, or who holds a health

 

profession specialty field license or specialty certification from

 

another state and who applies for licensure, registration,

 

specialty certification, or a health profession specialty field

 

license in this state may be granted an appropriate license or

 

registration or specialty certification or health profession

 

specialty field license upon satisfying the board or task force to

 

which the applicant applies as to all of the following:

 

     (a) The applicant substantially meets the requirements of this

 

article and rules promulgated under this article for licensure,

 

registration, specialty certification, or a health profession

 

specialty field license.

 

     (b) Subject to subsection (3), the applicant is licensed,

 

registered, specialty certified, or specialty licensed in another

 

state or, until January 1, 2012, is licensed in a province in

 

Canada that maintains standards substantially equivalent to those

 

of this state.

 

     (c) Subject to subsection (3), until January 1, 2012, if the

 

applicant is licensed to practice a health profession in a province

 

in Canada, the applicant completed the educational requirements in

 

Canada or in the United States for licensure in Canada or in the

 

United States.

 

     (d) Until January 1, 2012, if the applicant is licensed to

 

practice a health profession in a province in Canada, that the

 

applicant will perform the professional services for which he or

 

she bills in this state, and that any resulting request for third

 

party reimbursement will originate from the applicant's place of

 

employment in this state.

 

     (2) Before granting a license, registration, specialty

 

certification, or a health profession specialty field license to

 

the applicant, the board or task force to which the applicant

 

applies may require the applicant to appear personally before it

 

for an interview to evaluate the applicant's relevant

 

qualifications.

 

     (3) For purposes of 2002 PA 441, an applicant who is licensed

 

in a province in Canada who meets the requirements of subsection

 

(1)(c) and takes and passes a national examination in this country

 

that is approved by the appropriate Michigan licensing board, or

 

who takes and passes a Canadian national examination approved by

 

the appropriate Michigan licensing board, is considered to have met

 

the requirements of subsection (1)(b). This subsection does not

 

apply if the department, in consultation with the appropriate

 

licensing board, promulgates a rule disallowing the use of this

 

subsection for an applicant licensed in a province in Canada.

 

     (4) If the department receives an application for licensure

 

under part 187 from an individual who is licensed as a respiratory

 

therapist in the country of Canada, the department shall consult

 

the international reciprocity agreement executed by the national

 

board for respiratory care and the Canadian society of respiratory

 

therapists in effect on the effective date of the amendatory act

 

that added this subsection.

 

     Enacting section 1. Section 16344 of the public health code,

 

1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16344, is repealed.

 

     Enacting section 2. Part 187 of the public health code, 1978

 

PA 368, MCL 333.18701 to 333.18713, is repealed.