MEDICATION AIDE TRAINING PROGRAM                                                H.B. 4098 (S-1):

                                                                                                    SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                     REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 4098 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

Sponsor:  Representative Ben Frederick

House Committee:  Health Policy

Senate Committee:  Health Policy and Human Services

CONTENT

The bill would amend the Public Health Code to do the following:

-- Require the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) to administer a medication aide training and permit program as established in rules promulgated by the Department.

-- Prohibit an individual from engaging in practice as a medication aide unless he or she held a registration to engage in that practice.

-- Prohibit a person from offering a medication aide training program or providing training or instruction to a medication aide candidate unless the person held a permit to offer that training program or provide that training or instruction.

-- Rename the "Nurse Aide Registration Fund" as the "Nurse Aide and Medication Aide Registration Fund".

-- Allow LARA to grant a registration to engage in practice as a medication aide or a permit as a medication aide trainer or a medication aide training program if certain requirements were met.

-- Allow LARA to grant a registration to an out-of-State applicant if certain requirements were met.

-- Prescribe certain application and renewal fees for a registration to practice as a medication aide and for a permit to conduct training or instruction of a medication aide candidate.

-- Modify certain rulemaking provisions.

-- Prohibit requirements for surveying a medication aide training program from exceeding the standards established by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing for medication assistant-certified model curriculum.

MCL 333.21903 et al.                                              Legislative Analyst:  Stephen Jackson

FISCAL IMPACT

The bill would have an indeterminate fiscal impact on the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and no fiscal impact on local units of government.

Under the bill, annual registration fees for a medication aide would be as follows:

Medication aide	$64
Medication aide trainer	$80
Medication aide training program (per site)	$500

An applicant for registration also would have to pay a competency examination fee of $125.

The magnitude of the revenue collected would depend on the number of applicants for registration. Revenue would be deposited into the Nurse Aide and Medication Aide Registration Fund, which currently is named the Nurse Aide Registration Fund (the name of the Fund would be altered under the bill). Fees likely would offset a significant portion of expenses related to the registrant program; however, it is possible that the bill could result in the need for additional appropriations for administrative and investigatory purposes.

Date Completed:  11-3-20                                        Fiscal Analyst:  Elizabeth Raczkowski

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.