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 20904, 20912, 20950, 20952, and 20954 (MCL 333.20904, 333.20912, 333.20950, 333.20952, and 333.20954), sections 20904, 20912, and 20954 as amended by 2000 PA 375, section 20950 as amended by 2021 PA 25, and section 20952 as added by 1990 PA 179.
Senate Bill 249 would amend the Public Health Code to change examination requirements for a person to be licensed as a paramedic. Currently, among other things, a candidate for licensure must pass written and practical evaluations that are approved or developed by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians or another organization approved by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The bill would keep this path as a option, but would also require DHHS to develop or prescribe, by two years after the bill takes effect, a different written and practical examination to be allowed for licensure. The bill also would modify provisions concerning the accreditation of entities that provide paramedic education programs.
Co-sponsored by Sens.
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
Reported without amendment
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported without amendment
Substitute S-1 offered
by
The substitute was withdrawn
Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
Reported without amendment
Referred to the Committee on Government Operations
Reported without amendment
Passed in the House 101 to 4 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
