HOUSE BILL No. 6149

 

June 7, 2006, Introduced by Rep. Mortimer and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

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

 

section 18021 as amended by 1993 PA 79.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

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

 

podiatric medicine and surgery 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 and 4 public members.

 

     (2) 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 Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6147(request no.

 

05150'05) of the 93rd Legislature is enacted into law.