Bill Text: MI HB4067 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Health occupations: dentists; health profession specialty field license; expand to include other health profession specialty fields. Amends secs. 16605 & 16608 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16605 & 333.16608).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-13 - Assigned Pa 12'21 [HB4067 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB4067-Chaptered.html
Act No. 12
Public Acts of 2021
Approved by the Governor
May 13, 2021
Filed with the Secretary of State
May 13, 2021
EFFECTIVE DATE: Sine Die
state of michigan
101st Legislature
Regular session of 2021
Introduced by Reps. Frederick and Kahle
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4067
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 sections 16605 and 16608 (MCL 333.16605 and 333.16608), section 16605 as amended by 2018 PA 463 and section 16608 as amended by 2002 PA 643.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 16605. The following words, titles, or letters, or a combination of any of those words, titles, or letters, with or without qualifying words or phrases, are restricted in use only to those individuals who are authorized under this part to use the following terms and in a way prescribed in this part:
(a) “Dentist”, “doctor of dental surgery”, “oral and maxillofacial surgeon”, “orthodontist”, “prosthodontist”, “periodontist”, “endodontist”, “oral pathologist”, “pediatric dentist”, “dental hygienist”, “registered dental hygienist”, “dental assistant”, “registered dental assistant”, “dental therapist”, “r.d.a.”, “d.d.s.”, “d.m.d.”, “r.d.h.”, and “d.t.”.
(b) Beginning
September 1, 2022, “oral and maxillofacial radiologist”, “dental
anesthesiologist”, “oral medicine doctor”, “public health dentist”, and “orofacial
pain specialist”.
Sec. 16608. (1) The board may issue a health profession specialty field license to a dentist who has advanced training beyond that required for initial licensure and who has demonstrated competency through examination or other evaluative processes in 1 or more of the following health profession specialty fields:
(a) Prosthodontics, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, or oral pathology.
(b) Beginning September 1, 2022, oral medicine, orofacial pain, dental public health, oral and maxillofacial radiology, or dental anesthesiology.
(2) A dentist who held a health profession specialty certification in 1 or more of the health profession specialty fields listed in subsection (1)(a) on December 23, 2002 is considered to hold a health profession specialty field license on that date in each of those health profession specialty fields and may obtain renewal of each health profession specialty field license on the expiration date of the specialty certification.
(3) A health profession specialty field license issued under this section must be renewed concurrently with the license to practice dentistry.
(4) This section does not prohibit a dentist who has not been issued a health profession specialty field license under this section from performing services in 1 or more of the health profession specialty fields listed in subsection (1).
(5) For purposes of the administration of the general rules of the board in the Michigan Administrative Code, a reference to specialty certification is a reference to a health profession specialty field license.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
