HB-6149, As Passed House, June 27, 2006

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 6149

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

"Public health code,"

by amending sections 18011 and 18021 (MCL 333.18011 and 333.18021),

as amended by 2006 PA 161.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 18011. (1) A person shall not engage in the practice of

podiatric medicine and surgery or practice as a physician's

assistant unless licensed or otherwise authorized by this article.

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

thereof, 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:

"chiropodist", "chiropody", "chiropodical", "podiatry",

"podiatrist", "podiatric", "doctor of podiatric medicine", "foot

specialist", "podiatric physician and surgeon", and "d.p.m.".

     Sec. 18021. (1) The Michigan board of podiatric medicine and

surgery is created in the department and shall consist of the

following 9 voting members who shall meet the requirements of part

161: 5 podiatrists, 1 physician's assistant, and 3 public members.

     (2) The board of podiatric medicine and surgery does not have

the powers and duties vested in the task force by sections 17060 to

17084.

     (3) The terms of office of individual members of the board

created under this section, except those appointed to fill

vacancies, expire 4 years after appointment on June 30 of the year

in which the term expires.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

unless House Bill No. 6147 of the 93rd Legislature is enacted into

law.