Bill Text: MI SB1021 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Health occupations: health professionals; reciprocity requirements for an individual licensed in Canada; modify. Amends sec. 16186 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16186).
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-30 - Assigned Pa 0329'20 [SB1021 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB1021-Enrolled.html
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2020
Introduced by Senators
Schmidt and VanderWall
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1021
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,� by amending section 16186 (MCL 333.16186), as amended by 2006 PA 398.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 16186. (1) An individual who is licensed to practice a
health profession in another state or 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
is licensed
in a province in Canada that maintains standards substantially equivalent to
those of this state.
(c) Subject to subsection (3), 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) 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) 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 licensing board of
this state,
or who takes and passes a Canadian national examination approved by the
appropriate licensing board of this state, 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 who does not substantially meet the training or
educational requirements expected of an applicant for the same health
profession who received his or her education in the United States or who is not
licensed in a province in Canada that maintains standards substantially
equivalent to those of this state.
(4) If the department receives an application for licensure under part 187 from an individual who is licensed as a respiratory therapist in 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 July 1, 2004.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
