Act No. 387

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

September 26, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

September 27, 2006

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 27, 2006

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Rep. Ward

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6208

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, 17821, and 17903 (MCL 333.17820, 333.17821, and 333.17903), section 17820 as amended by 2005 PA 281, section 17821 as amended by 1993 PA 79, and section 17903 as added by 2006 PA 54.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 17820. (1) 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.

(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: "physical therapy", "physical therapist", "physiotherapist", "registered physical therapist", "licensed physical therapist", "physical therapy technician", "p.t.", "r.p.t.", "l.p.t.", and "p.t.t.".

Sec. 17821. (1) The Michigan board of physical therapy is created in the department and shall consist of the following 9 voting members who shall meet the requirements of part 161: 5 physical therapists and 4 public members.

(2) The terms of office of the individual members of the board created under this section, except those appointed to fill vacancies, expire 4 years after appointment on December 31 of the year in which the term expires.

Sec. 17903. (1) The Michigan athletic trainer board is created in the department and shall consist of the following 7members meeting the requirements of part 161:

(a) Four athletic trainers.

(b) One public member.

(c) Two physicians licensed under part 170 or 175.

(2) The terms of office of individual members of the board created under this part, 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.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor