Act No. 281

Public Acts of 2005

Approved by the Governor

December 19, 2005

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 19, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 19, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

Introduced by Senator George

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 380

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 17820 and 17822 (MCL 333.17820 and 333.17822), section 17820 as amended and section 17822 as added by 1987 PA 213.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 17820. A person shall not engage in the practice of physical therapy unless licensed or otherwise authorized by this article. A person shall engage in the actual treatment of an individual only upon the prescription of an individual holding a license issued under part 166, 170, 175, or 180, or the equivalent license issued by another state.

Sec. 17822. This part does not prohibit a hospital, as a condition of employment or the granting of staff privileges, from requiring a physical therapist to practice in the hospital only upon the prescription of an individual holding a license issued under part 166, 170, 175, or 180 or the equivalent license issued by another state.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor