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STATE OF MICHIGAN  
MICHIGAN OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS AND RULES  
BUREAU OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING  
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PUBLIC HEARING  
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Thursday, February 16, 2023  
9:09 a.m.  
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611 West Ottawa Street, UL-5  
Lansing, Michigan  
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12 Re: Optometry - General Rules (MOAHR #2022-49 LR)  
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14 HEARING FACILITATOR:  
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Kerry Przybylo,  
Boards and Committees Section,  
Bureau of Professional Licensing  
17 Also Present:  
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Jeff Towns  
23 Reported by: Marie T. Schroeder, CSR-2183  
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Lansing, Michigan  
Thursday, February 16, 2023  
9:09 a.m.  
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(Hearing commenced pursuant to due notice.)  
KERRY PRZYBYLO: My name is Kerry  
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Przybylo, and I am the manager of the Boards and  
Committees Section within the Bureau of Professional  
Licensing in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory  
Affairs. I will be conducting the hearing today.  
This is a public hearing on proposed  
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administrative rules entitled "Optometry-General Rules."  
We are conducting this hearing under the authority of the  
Administrative Procedures Act, Public Act 306 of 1969, on  
behalf of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory  
Affairs, Bureau of Professional Licensing.  
We are calling this hearing to order at  
9:09 on February 16, 2023, at the Ottawa Building, UL-5,  
at 611 West Ottawa Street, in Lansing, Michigan.  
Publication of the notice of public hearing was in the  
Flint Journal and the Grand Rapids Press on January 24,  
2023, and the Mining Journal on January 30, 2023. These  
papers are newspapers of general circulation. The  
notices were also published in the Michigan Register,  
Issue #2-2023, on February 15, 2023.  
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We are here today to receive comments on  
the proposed rules. If you wish to speak, please make  
sure you have signed in and indicated you wish to speak.  
You may use the card provided for this purpose. If you  
would like to speak and have not signed in, please do so  
now. For those of you that do not wish to sign in with a  
card, you may speak at the microphone once we have  
exhausted the cards submitted to me.  
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If you have comments, please make sure  
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that they relate directly to the proposed rules. If you  
have questions about the rules, please include your  
questions as part of your testimony for the Department's  
review. If you have suggested changes to the proposed  
rules, please include the specific reasons why the  
changes would be in the public interest.  
Please note, if you have already  
submitted comments to the Department in writing or by  
e-mail, those comments will be considered in the same  
manner as the comments made during the public hearing  
today.  
For those making comments today, please  
clearly state and spell your name for the record, and if  
you are speaking on behalf of an organization, please  
identify that organization as well.  
If you have written comments, you may  
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submit them directly to me. The Department will also  
accept written comments postmarked or e-mailed until 5:00  
p.m. today.  
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The Department staff from the Bureau of  
Professional Licensing attending today's hearing is me,  
Kerry Przybylo.  
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All right. So do we have anyone that  
wishes to make a comment on the rules? (No response.)  
Hearing none, we will go off the record  
for 15 minutes and then see if there are any further  
comments, and then we will adjourn the hearing.  
(Brief recess taken from 9:12 to 9:22 a.m.)  
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KERRY PRZYBYLO: It is 9:22. Seeing that  
there are no persons who wish to speak at this time, we  
will declare the hearing closed. The record will remain  
open today until 5:00 p.m. for any other comments you may  
wish to make or share about the proposed rules. Thank  
you for attending.  
(At 9:23 a.m., the public hearing was closed.)  
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C E R T I F I C A T E  
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I, Marie T. Schroeder, CSR-2183, do hereby  
certify that I reported in stenotype the proceedings had  
at the Public Hearing before the Bureau of Professional  
Licensing, Department of Licensing and Regulation, at 611  
West Ottawa Street, UL-5, Ottawa Building, Lansing,  
Michigan, on Thursday, February 16, 2023; and do further  
certify that the foregoing transcript, consisting of  
five (5) pages, is a true and correct transcript of my  
stenotype notes.  
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Marie T. Schroeder, CSR-2183  
Penn Reporting, LLC  
February 17, 2023  
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