Bill Text: MI SB0569 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Businesses; professional corporations; physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician's assistants to organize a professional corporation; allow. Amends secs. 282 & 284 of 1972 PA 284 (MCL 450.1282 & 450.1284). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0568'13
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-10-01 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [SB0569 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0569-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 569
October 1, 2013, Introduced by Senator MARLEAU and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1972 PA 284, entitled
"Business corporation act,"
by amending sections 282 and 284 (MCL 450.1282 and 450.1284), as
added by 2012 PA 569.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 282. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Licensed person" means an individual who is duly licensed
or otherwise legally authorized to practice a professional service
by a court, department, board, commission, or agency of this state
or another jurisdiction. The term includes an entity if all of its
owners are licensed persons.
(b) "Professional service" means a type of personal service to
the public that requires that the provider obtain a license or
other legal authorization as a condition precedent to providing
that service. Professional service includes, but is not limited to,
services provided by a certified or other public accountant,
chiropractor, dentist, optometrist, veterinarian, osteopathic
physician,
physician, surgeon, podiatrist, chiropodist, physician's
physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, nurse
anesthetist, architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, or
attorney-at-law.
Sec. 284. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2),
or
(3), or (4), if a professional
corporation provides a
professional service that is subject to article 15 of the public
health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838, each
shareholder of the professional corporation must be licensed or
legally authorized in this state to provide the same professional
service.
(2) One or more individuals who are licensed to engage in the
practice
of medicine under part 170, the practice of osteopathic
medicine
and surgery under part 175, 171,
or the practice of
podiatric medicine and surgery under part 180, of article 15 of the
public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838, may
organize a professional corporation under this act with 1 or more
other individuals who are licensed to engage in the practice of
medicine
under part 170, the practice of osteopathic medicine and
surgery
under part 175, 171, or the practice of podiatric medicine
and surgery under part 180, of article 15 of the public health
code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838.
(3)
Subject to section 17048 of the public health code, 1978
PA
368, MCL 333.17048, 1 or more One
or more individuals who are
licensed
to engage in the practice of medicine, under part 170, the
practice
of osteopathic medicine and surgery under part 175, or the
practice
of podiatric medicine and surgery under part 180 of
article
15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to
333.18838,
practice as a physician
assistant, or the practice of
advanced practice registered nursing, under part 171 of the public
health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17101 to 333.17186, may organize
a
professional corporation under this act with 1 or more
physician's
assistants any other
individuals who are licensed under
article
15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to
333.18838.
Beginning July 19, 2010, 1 or more physician's
assistants
may not organize a professional corporation under this
act
that will have only physician's assistants as shareholders.part
171.
(4) One or more individuals who are licensed to engage in the
practice of medicine under part 171 of the public health code, 1978
PA 368, MCL 333.17101 to 333.17186, may organize a professional
corporation under this act with 1 or more registered professional
nurses who hold specialty certifications in the field of nurse
anesthetist under section 17210 of the public health code, 1978 PA
368, MCL 333.17210.
(5) (4)
A licensed person of another
jurisdiction may become
an officer, agent, or employee of a professional corporation but
shall not provide any professional service in this state until the
person is licensed or otherwise legally authorized to provide the
professional service in this state.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. 568
of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.
