Bill Text: MI HB4712 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health occupations; physical therapists; authority to prescribe treatment by a licensed physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; include chiropractors. Amends sec. 17820 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17820).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-10-06 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4712 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB4712-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4712

 

June 11, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Crawford, Darany, Callton, Vaupel, Jenkins and Price and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

by amending section 17820 (MCL 333.17820), as amended by 2014 PA

 

260.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17820. (1) An individual shall not engage in the practice

 

of physical therapy or practice as a physical therapist assistant

 

unless licensed or otherwise authorized under this part. Except as

 

otherwise provided in this subsection, a physical therapist or

 

physical therapist assistant shall engage in the treatment of a

 

patient only upon the prescription of a health care professional

 

who holds a license issued under part 164, 166, 170, 175, or 180,

 

or the equivalent license issued by another state. A physical

 

therapist or a physical therapist assistant may engage in the

 

treatment of a patient without the prescription of a health care

 

professional who holds a license issued under part 164, 166, 170,

 

175, or 180, or the equivalent license issued by another state,

 

under either of the following circumstances:

 

     (a) For 21 days or 10 treatments, whichever first occurs.

 

However, a physical therapist shall determine that the patient's

 

condition requires physical therapy before delegating physical

 

therapy interventions to a physical therapist assistant.

 

     (b) The patient is seeking physical therapy services for the

 

purpose of preventing injury or promoting fitness.

 

     (2) The following words, titles, or letters or a combination

 

of words, titles, or letters, with or without qualifying words or

 

phrases, are restricted in use only to those persons authorized

 

under this part to use the terms and in a way prescribed in this

 

part: "physical therapy", "physical therapist", "doctor of

 

physiotherapy", "doctor of physical therapy", "physiotherapist",

 

"physiotherapy", "registered physical therapist", "licensed

 

physical therapist", "physical therapy technician", "physical

 

therapist assistant", "physical therapy assistant",

 

"physiotherapist assistant", "physiotherapy assistant", "p.t.

 

assistant", "p.t.", "r.p.t.", "l.p.t.", "c.p.t.", "d.p.t.",

 

"m.p.t.", "p.t.a.", "registered p.t.a.", "licensed p.t.a.",

 

"certified p.t.a.", "c.p.t.a.", "l.p.t.a.", "r.p.t.a.", and

 

"p.t.t.".

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.