Bill Text: MI SB1081 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health occupations: health professionals; definition of invasive bodily examination; add. Amends secs. 16105 & 16106 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16105 & 333.16106). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4958'19
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-08 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole [SB1081 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB1081-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 1081
September 02, 2020, Introduced by Senator WOJNO
and referred to the Committee on Health Policy and Human Services.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending sections 16105 and 16106 (MCL 333.16105 and 333.16106), as amended by 2002 PA 643.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 16105. (1) "Health occupation" means a
health related vocation, calling, occupation, or employment performed by an
individual whether or not the individual is licensed or registered under this
article.
(2) "Health
profession" means a vocation, calling, occupation, or employment performed
by an individual acting pursuant to a license or registration issued under this
article.
(3) "Health
profession specialty field" means an area of practice established under
this article that is within the scope of activities, functions, and duties of a
licensed health profession and that requires advanced education and training
beyond that required for initial licensure.
(4) "Health
profession specialty field license" means an authorization to use a title
issued to a licensee who has met qualifications established by the Michigan
board of dentistry for registration in a health profession specialty field. An
individual who holds a dental specialty certification on the effective date of the
amendatory act that added this subsection December 23, 2002 is considered to hold a health
profession specialty field license in that speciality and may obtain renewal of
the health profession specialty field license in that speciality on the
expiration date of the specialty certification. The health profession specialty
field license is not a license. as that term is defined in section
16106(2).
(5) "Health
profession subfield" means an area of practice established under this
article which that is within the scope of the
activities, functions, and duties of a licensed health profession, and requires
less comprehensive knowledge and skill than is required to practice the full
scope of the health profession.
Sec. 16106. (1) "Incompetence" means a
departure from, or failure to conform to, minimal standards of acceptable and
prevailing practice for a health profession, whether or not actual injury to an
individual occurs.
(2)
"Invasive bodily examination" means a pelvic, vaginal, rectal, or
prostate examination.
(3)
(2) "License", except as otherwise provided in
this subsection, means an authorization issued under this article to practice
where practice would otherwise be unlawful. License includes an authorization
to use a designated title which use would otherwise be prohibited under this
article and may be used to refer to a health profession subfield license,
limited license, or a temporary license. For purposes of the definition of
"prescriber" contained in section 17708(2) only, license includes an
authorization issued under the laws of another state, or the country of Canada
to practice in that state or in the country of Canada, where practice would
otherwise be unlawful, and is limited to a licensed doctor of medicine, a
licensed doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery, or another licensed health
professional acting under the delegation and using, recording, or otherwise
indicating the name of the delegating licensed doctor of medicine or licensed
doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery. License does not include a health
profession specialty field license.
(4)
(3) "Licensee", as used in a part that regulates
a specific health profession, means an individual to whom a license is issued
under that part, and as used in this part means each licensee regulated by this
article.
(5)
(4) "Limitation" means an action by which a
board imposes restrictions or conditions, or both, on a license.
(6)
(5) "Limited license" means a license to which
restrictions or conditions, or both, as to scope of practice, place of
practice, supervision of practice, duration of licensed status, or type or
condition of patient or client served are imposed by a board.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 4958 of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.