Bill Text: MI HB4605 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Occupations; emergency medical services personnel; use of certain military experience as the basis for licensure as an emergency medical technician; authorize, and waive certain fees. Amends sec. 20950 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20950).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: (Passed) 2013-11-13 - Assigned Pa 165'13 With Immediate Effect [HB4605 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4605-Chaptered.html
Act No. 165
Public Acts of 2013
Approved by the Governor
November 13, 2013
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 13, 2013
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 12, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
Introduced by Reps. Haines, Kowall, O’Brien, Glardon, McCready, Crawford, Victory, Muxlow, Yonker, Kesto, Tlaib, Hobbs, Foster and Haugh
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4605
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 20950 (MCL 333.20950), as amended by 2006 PA 568.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 20950. (1) An individual shall not practice or advertise to practice as a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, paramedic, or emergency medical services instructor-coordinator unless licensed by the department under this section.
(2) The department shall issue a license under this section only to an individual who meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Is 18 years of age or older.
(b) Meets either of the following requirements:
(i) Has successfully completed the appropriate education program approved under section 20912.
(ii) While serving as a member of the armed forces, served as a military health care specialist and was separated from service with an honorable character of service or under an honorable conditions (general) character of service in the 2-year period preceding the date the license application is filed. The applicant shall provide a form DD214, DD215, or any other form that is satisfactory to the department to meet the criteria established in this subparagraph. This subparagraph only applies to an applicant for a license as an emergency medical technician.
(c) Subject to subsection (3), has attained a passing score on the appropriate department prescribed examination, as follows:
(i) A medical first responder must pass the written examination proctored by the department or the department’s designee and a practical examination approved by the department. The practical examination shall be administered by the instructors of the medical first responder course. The department or the department’s designee may also proctor the practical examination. The individual shall pay the fee for the written examination required under this subparagraph directly to the national registry of emergency medical technicians or other organization approved by the department.
(ii) An emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic must pass the written examination proctored by the department or the department’s designee and a practical examination proctored by the department or the department’s designee. The individual shall pay the fee for the written examination required under this subparagraph directly to the national registry of emergency medical technicians or other organization approved by the department.
(d) Meets other requirements of this part.
(3) The department shall require for purposes of compliance with subsection (2)(c) successful passage by each first-time applicant of an examination.
(4) The department shall issue a license as an emergency medical services instructor-coordinator only to an individual who meets the requirements of subsection (2) for an emergency medical services instructor-coordinator and at the time of application is currently licensed as a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic and has at least 3 years’ field experience with a licensed life support agency as a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic. The department shall provide for the development and administration of an examination for emergency medical services instructor-coordinators. The license shall specify the level of instruction-coordination the individual is licensed to provide. An emergency medical services instructor-coordinator shall not instruct or coordinate emergency medical training courses at a level that exceeds his or her designated level of licensure and for which he or she does not have at least 3 years’ field experience at that level of licensure.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in section 20952, a license under this section is effective for 3 years from the date of issuance unless revoked or suspended by the department.
(6) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an applicant for licensure under this section shall pay the following triennial licensure fees:
(a) Medical first responder - no fee.
(b) Emergency medical technician - $40.00.
(c) Emergency medical technician specialist - $60.00.
(d) Paramedic - $80.00.
(e) Emergency medical services instructor-coordinator - $100.00.
(7) If a life support agency certifies to the department that an applicant for licensure under this section will act as a volunteer and if the life support agency does not charge for its services, the department shall not require the applicant to pay the fee required under subsection (6). If the applicant ceases to meet the definition of a volunteer under this part at any time during the effective period of his or her license and is employed as a licensee under this part, the applicant shall at that time pay the fee required under subsection (6).
(8) The department shall waive the fee required under subsection (6) for the initial license if the applicant for initial licensure was separated from service with an honorable character of service or under honorable conditions (general) character of service in the armed forces. The applicant shall provide a form DD214, DD215, or any other form that is satisfactory to the department to be eligible for the waiver of the fee under this subsection.
(9) As used in this section, “armed forces” means that term as defined in section 2 of the veteran right to employment services act, 1994 PA 39, MCL 35.1092.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect upon the expiration of 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
