2009 House Bill 5614 / 2010 Public Act 382

Require licensure violation investigations

Introduced in the House

Dec. 1, 2009

Introduced by Rep. Roy Schmidt (D-76)

To require the state to investigate allegations that a person subject to occupational licensure mandates under the Public Health Code is operating without a license, which can be prosecuted as a felony. The bill does not allow for discretion or specify any criteria for assessing the credibility of an allegation or motives of the accuser.

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy

Jan. 19, 2010

Reported without amendment

Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.

Jan. 27, 2010

Passed in the House 95 to 4 (details)

Received in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2010

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy

Sept. 21, 2010

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Dec. 1, 2010

Substitute offered

To adopt a version of the bill that does not deal with licensure violations; see Senate-passed version for details.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Dec. 3, 2010

Passed in the Senate 33 to 0 (details)

Received in the House

Dec. 3, 2010

In the Senate

Dec. 3, 2010

Motion to reconsider by Sen. Alan L. Cropsey (R-33)

The vote by which the bill was passed.

The motion passed by voice vote

Received

Amendment offered by Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-30)

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 33 to 0 (details)

To not revise details of investigations related to state licensure mandate violations as the House-passed version of this bill did, but instead replace those provisions with the contents of Senate Bill 419, which allows a person who is age 16 to donate blood with parental consent, rather than age 17, and name the bill after the daughter of SB 419's sponsor, Sen. Wayne Kuipers, reportedly because he says he wants it passed for her. Also, to use the bill as a "vehicle" to establish that health professionals who do anything that comes under the scope of activities of a recently-imposed "physical therapist" licensure mandate are exempt from that mandate.

In the House

Dec. 15, 2010

Amendment offered by Rep. Roy Schmidt (D-76)

To not name the bill after the daughter of the sponsor of the bill whose provisions replaced the version originally passed by the House.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 88 to 3 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version if the bill, which replaced its provisions with the contents of Senate Bill 419, which allows a person who is age 16 to donate blood with parental consent, rather than age 17, except the House deleted the provision naming the bill after the daughter of SB 419's sponsor. Also, to establish that health professionals who do anything that comes under the scope of activities of a recently-imposed "physical therapist" licensure mandate are exempt from that mandate.

Received in the Senate

Dec. 15, 2010

Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, except without the provision naming the bill after the daughter of the sponsor of the as-passed version.

Signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm

Dec. 22, 2010