Bill Text: MI SB0045 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Engrossed
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: SB 0044'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-11-08 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [SB0045 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-SB0045-Engrossed.html
SENATE BILL NO. 45
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending sections 16105 and 16106 (MCL 333.16105 and 333.16106), section 16105 as amended by 2002 PA 643 and section 16106 as amended by 2022 PA 80.
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 specialty and may obtain renewal of the health profession specialty field license in that speciality specialty 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 and section 17708(2), 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. 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 Senate Bill No. 44 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
