Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules

611 W. Ottawa Street

Lansing, MI 48909

Phone: 517-335-8658 Fax: 517-335-9512

AGENCY REPORT TO THE

JOINT COMMITEE ON ADMNINISTRATIVE RULES (JCAR)

1. Agency Information

Agency name:

Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

Division/Bureau/Office:

Bureau of Professional Licensing

Name of person completing this form:

Weston MacIntosh

Phone number of person completing this form:

517-241-9269

E-mail of person completing this form:

MacintoshW1@michigan.gov

Name of Department Regulatory Affairs Officer reviewing this form:

Elizabeth Arasim

2. Rule Set Information

MOAHR assigned rule set number:

2019-103 LR

Title of proposed rule set:

Sanitarians Registration - General Rules

3. Purpose for the proposed rules and background:

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The general purpose of these rules is to address educational and registration requirements.

The proposed changes include reorganization of the rules and substantive changes to amend the rules

to:

- Clarify definitions and the meaning of terms used in the rules.

- Update environmental health baccalaureate programs accreditation standards.

- Update environmental health graduate programs accreditation standards.

- Update higher institution educational program regional accreditation standards.

- Move educational requirements from the definitions rule to an educational section and rule.

- Require applicants who are graduates of only regionally accredited programs to provide to the

department an evaluation of their educational credentials by a credential evaluation organization.

- Revise the human trafficking rule to include a date of promulgation.

- Remove duplicative language from the former examination rule.

- Clarify and simplify registration by examination requirements, including the removal of

departmental review of an alternative educational and training program.

- Add criteria related to good moral character and fingerprinting as conditions for re-registration of a

sanitarian, as well as other relevant criteria, depending on the circumstances of the applicant.

- Add a rule that addresses the requirements for registration renewal.

4. Summary of proposed rules:

The proposed rules will clarify definitions and the meaning of terms used in the rules; update

environmental health baccalaureate programs accreditation standards; update environmental health

graduate programs accreditation standards; update higher institution educational program regional

accreditation standards; move educational requirements from the definitions to a rule in the

educational section; require applicants who are graduates of programs that are only regionally

accredited to provide an evaluation of their educational credentials by a credential evaluation

organization to the department; revise the human trafficking rule to include a date of promulgation;

remove duplicative language from the former examination rule; clarify and simplify registration by

examination requirements, including the removal of departmental review of an alternative educational

and training program; add criteria related to good moral character and fingerprinting as conditions for

re-registration of a sanitarian, as well as other relevant criteria, depending on the circumstances of the

applicant; and add a rule that addresses the requirements for registration renewal.

5. List names of newspapers in which the notice of public hearing was published and

publication dates:

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The Grand Rapids Press, May 8, 2020

The Mining Journal, May 5, 2020

The Flint Journal, May 8, 2020

6. Date of publication of rules and notice of public hearing in Michigan Register:

5/15/2020

7. Date, time, and location of public hearing:

5/22/2020 09:00 AM at G. Mennen Williams Building Auditorium or Virtually via Zoom if Executive

Order 2020-48 is extended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. , 525 W. Ottawa Street, Lansing,

Michigan, 48933

8. Provide the link the agency used to post the regulatory impact statement and cost-benefit

analysis on its website:

https://ARS.apps.lara.state.mi.us/Transaction/RFRTransaction?TransactionID=89

9. List of the name and title of agency representative(s) attending public hearing:

Weston MacIntosh, Senior Policy Analyst, Bureau of Professional Licensing

Kerry Przybylo, Manager, Boards and Committees Section, Bureau of Professional Licensing,

Kimmy Catlin, Departmental Technician, Bureau of Professional Licensing

10. Persons submitting comments of support:

None.

11. Persons submitting comments of opposition:

Although not necessarily opposed to the rule set, Matt Bolang, Tony Drautz, Scott Johnston, and

Regina Young sought additions or clarifications to the rule set.

12. Identify any changes made to the proposed rules based on comments received during the

public comment period:

Name &

Organization public hearing

Comments made at Written

Comments

Agency Rationale Rule number

for change

& citation

changed

N/A

13.Date report completed:

7/28/2020

MCL 24.242 and 24.245