Agency Report to JCAR-Page 2
The proposed rules will revise the definitions of terms used in the rules, revise the education,
experience, and examination requirements that must be satisfied to receive a license, and clarify the
requirements pertaining to the seal of a professional engineer. In addition, relicensure and continuing
education requirements will be clarified, and the rules pertaining to the standards of practice and
professional conduct will be revised.
5. List names of newspapers in which the notice of public hearing was published and
publication dates:
The Grand Rapids Press, September 19, 2019
The Mining Journal, September 18, 2019
The Flint Journal, September 19, 2019
6. Date of publication of rules and notice of public hearing in Michigan Register:
10/4/2019
7. Date, time, and location of public hearing:
10/4/2019 09:00 AM at G. Mennen Williams Building - Auditorium , 525 W. Ottawa Street, Lansing,
MI
8. Provide the link the agency used to post the regulatory impact statement and cost-benefit
analysis on its website:
9. List of the name and title of agency representative(s) attending public hearing:
Andria Ditschman, Senior Policy Analyst, Bureau of Professional Licensing
Weston MacIntosh, Senior Policy Analyst, Bureau of Professional Licensing
Dena Marks, Senior Policy Analyst, Bureau of Professional Licensing
Kerry Przybylo, Manager, Boards and Committees Section, Bureau of Professional Licensing
10. Persons submitting comments of support:
None, however, the Department withdrew the rules with permission, and they are now being
resubmitted.
11. Persons submitting comments of opposition:
Thomas Campbell, Craig Hoff, James McLaughlin, Stephen Nichols
12. Identify any changes made to the proposed rules based on comments received during the
public comment period:
Name &
Comments made at Written
Agency Rationale Rule number
Organization public hearing
Comments
for change
& citation
changed
1
James
Objection is
Compensation of a Current rule
McLaughlin
made to the last licensee is
R 339.16001
sentence in old
independent from (1)(b),
rule R 339.16001 satisfaction of
(1)(b) [proposed continuing
rule R 339.16001 education.
proposed rule
R 339.16001
(1)(d).
MCL 24.242 and 24.245