Bill Text: MI HB4549 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Health occupations; psychologists; exemption from examination requirement for limited license psychologists; provide for certain individuals. Amends secs. 16141, 16145 & 18223 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16141 et seq.).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-10-12 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [HB4549 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4549-Engrossed.html
HB-4549, As Passed House, October 11, 2017
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4549
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending sections 16141, 16145, and 18223 (MCL 333.16141,
333.16145, and 333.18223), sections 16141 and 16145 as amended by
1993 PA 80 and section 18223 as amended by 2014 PA 385.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 16141. (1) The department shall furnish office services
to the committee, the boards, and the task forces; have charge of
their offices, records, and money collected; and perform managerial
and administrative functions for them.
(2) The department shall appoint administrative and
secretarial staff, clerks, and employees necessary to allow the
proper exercise of the powers and duties of the committee, a board,
or a task force. Salaries and other expenses incurred by the
committee, a board, or a task force and staff and expenses for
studies
and activities authorized under this article shall must be
paid out of funds appropriated by the legislature for those
purposes.
(3) The department may promulgate rules to promote the
effective and consistent administration of this article. However,
except as otherwise provided in this article, the department shall
not promulgate rules that constitute the licensure, registration,
or examination of health professionals.
Sec. 16145. (1) A board may adopt and have an official seal.
(2)
A Except as otherwise
provided in this article, a board or
task force may promulgate rules necessary or appropriate to fulfill
its functions as prescribed in this article.
(3)
Only Except as otherwise
provided in this article, only a
board or task force shall promulgate rules to specify requirements
for licenses, registrations, renewals, examinations, and required
passing scores.
Sec. 18223. (1) The department, in consultation with the
board, shall promulgate rules requiring that to be granted a
license under this part, except as provided in subsection (2), an
individual must meet both of the following requirements:
(a) Have been granted a doctoral degree in psychology, or a
doctoral degree in a closely related field, from a doctoral degree
program
that meets both all of the following requirements:
(i) Is offered by a regionally accredited or other college,
university,
or institution approved by the board, which program
included
and includes education and training appropriate to the
practice of psychology.
(ii) Has obtained the association Association of state State
and
provincial psychology boards' Provincial
Psychology Boards'
national register designation, has been accredited by the American
psychological
association Psychological
Association or the Canadian
psychological
association, Psychological
Association, or has
obtained a similar designation from or been accredited by an entity
approved
by the board. For purposes of the requirement added by
2010
PA 121, However, a program that is in the process of obtaining
the
designation or becoming accredited as required in this sub-
subparagraph
subparagraph before August 1, 2011, and that obtains
the designation or becomes accredited on or before August 31, 2020,
meets
the requirements of this sub-subparagraph.subparagraph.
(b) Have not less than 1 year of postdoctoral experience in
the practice of psychology in an organized health care setting or
other arrangement, as established by the board.
(2) In addition to section 16182, the board shall grant a
limited license to an individual granted a master's degree in
psychology from a regionally accredited college, or university, or
institution approved by the board, if the individual has education,
training, and experience appropriate to the practice of psychology,
as established by the board. An individual who is applying for an
initial limited license under this subsection before December 31,
2017 is not required to take an examination that is approved by the
board to be granted a limited license under this part if the
individual was granted a master's degree in psychology before June
30, 2010 from the college, university, or institution described in
this subsection, the individual has continuously held the temporary
license described in this subsection since it was initially granted
by the board, and the disciplinary subcommittee has not imposed a
sanction against the individual while holding the temporary license
described in this subsection. Except for duties performed as an
employee of a governmental entity or of a nonprofit organization
serving benevolent and charitable purposes, the board shall place 2
limitations on a license granted to an individual under this
subsection. The limitations must require supervision by a
psychologist who has a license other than a limited license and
must prohibit advertising or other representation to the public
that will lead the public to believe the individual is engaging in
the practice of psychology. A limited license granted under this
subsection
is renewable pursuant to under
part 161. An individual
who
is applying for a limited license pursuant
to under this
subsection must have 1 year of supervised postgraduate experience
in an organized health care setting or other arrangement, as
established by the board. The individual must be supervised by a
psychologist who has a license other than a limited license, or if
a psychologist who has a license other than a limited license is
not available, by a psychologist who has at least a master's degree
in psychology and at least 3 years of experience in the practice of
psychology or by any other individual approved by the board. The
board
shall issue grant a temporary license to the individual for
the purpose of obtaining the 1 year of postgraduate experience.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
