Act No. 568

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 3, 2007

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2007

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Reps. Hildenbrand and Pearce

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6300

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 section 20950 (MCL 333.20950), as amended by 2000 PA 375.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 20950. (1) An individual shall not practice or advertise to practice as a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, paramedic, or emergency medical services instructor-coordinator unless licensed to do so by the department.

(2) The department shall issue a license under this section only to an individual who meets all of the following requirements:

(a) Is 18 years of age or older.

(b) Has successfully completed the appropriate education program approved under section 20912.

(c) Subject to subsection (3), has attained a passing score on the appropriate department prescribed examination, as follows:

(i) A medical first responder shall pass the written examination proctored by the department or the department's designee and a practical examination approved by the department. The practical examination shall be administered by the instructors of the medical first responder course. The department or the department's designee may also proctor the practical examination.

(ii) An emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, and a paramedic shall pass the written examination proctored by the department or the department's designee and a practical examination proctored by the department or the department's designee.

(iii) The fee for the written examinations required under subparagraphs (i) and (ii) shall be paid directly to the national registry of emergency medical technicians or other organization approved by the department.

(d) Meets other requirements of this part.

(3) The department shall require for purposes of compliance with subsection (2)(c) successful passage by each first-time applicant of an examination as that term is defined in section 20904(10).

(4) The department shall issue a license as an emergency medical services instructor-coordinator only to an individual who meets the requirements of subsection (2) for an emergency medical services instructor-coordinator and at the time of application is currently licensed as a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic and has at least 3 years' field experience with a licensed life support agency as a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic. The department shall provide for the development and administration of an examination for emergency medical services instructor-coordinators. The license shall specify the level of instruction-coordination the individual is licensed to provide. An emergency medical services instructor-coordinator shall not instruct or coordinate emergency medical training courses at a level that exceeds his or her designated level of licensure and for which he or she does not have at least 3 years' field experience at that level of licensure.

(5) Except as provided by section 20952, a license under this section is effective for 3 years from the date of issuance unless revoked or suspended by the department.

(6) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7), an applicant for licensure under this section shall pay the following triennial licensure fees:

(a) Medical first responder - no fee.

(b) Emergency medical technician - $40.00.

(c) Emergency medical technician specialist - $60.00.

(d) Paramedic - $80.00.

(e) Emergency medical services instructor-coordinator - $100.00.

(7) If a life support agency certifies to the department that an applicant for licensure under this section will act as a volunteer and if the life support agency does not charge for its services, the department shall not require the applicant to pay the fee required under subsection (6). If the applicant ceases to meet the definition of a volunteer under this part at any time during the effective period of his or her license and is employed as a licensee under this part, the applicant shall at that time pay the fee required under subsection (6).

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor