Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules

MOAHR-Rules@michigan.gov

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:

Andria Ditschman

Phone number of person completing this form:

517-290-3361

E-mail of person completing this form:

DitschmanA@michigan.gov

Name of Department Regulatory Affairs Officer reviewing this form:

Elizabeth Arasim

2. Rule Set Information

MOAHR assigned rule set number:

2020-129 LR

Title of proposed rule set:

Board of Midwifery

3. Purpose for the proposed rules and background:

The purpose of the Board of Midwifery Rules is to regulate the prelicensure education, licensure,

practice, conduct, disclosure and consent, classification of conditions for consultation, referral, and

emergent transfer, administration of prescriptions drugs and medications, licensure renewal,

relicensure, and continuing education for licensed midwives.

The proposed rules are intended to delete the English proficiency requirement that is being added to

the General Public Health Rules, consider broadening a referral for abnormal metabolic infant

screening to an abnormal blood spot infant screening, consider referrals for other abnormal infant

screening tests, consider regulations for telehealth, and update rules affected by any other modified

Public Health Code (Code) provisions.

4. Summary of proposed rules:

MCL 24.242 and 24.245

Agency Report to JCAR-Page 2

The proposed rules will require endorsement and relicensure applicants to disclose all licenses with

other entities, report current discipline or sanctions on a license, and meet the human trafficking,

English language and implicit bias training requirements. The proposed rules will also rescind the

English language requirement as the requirement has been added to the Public Health Code – General

Rules, require licensed midwives to consult with or refer a patient if an infant has an abnormal blood

spot infant screening, or failed critical congenital heart defect screening, modify and add drugs to the

Table 1 and Table 2 for the treatment of patients, and allow licensed midwives in to use the two

required hours of implicit bias training for credit toward the two required hours of cultural awareness

training.

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

publication dates:

Marquette Mining Journal – April 21, 2022; Flint Journal – April 17, 2022; Grand Rapids Press –

April 17, 2022.

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

5/1/2022

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

5/12/2022 09:00 AM at Location: G. Mennen Williams Building Auditorium 525 W. Ottawa Street,

Lansing, Michigan , 525 W. Ottawa Street, Lansing, Michigan

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=1255

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

Kerry Przybylo, Manager; Andria Ditschman, Senior Policy Analyst; and Weston MacIntosh, Senior

Policy Analyst.

10. Persons submitting comments of support:

No comments were received.

11. Persons submitting comments of opposition:

No comments were received.

12. Persons submitting other comments:

No comments were received.

13. 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 Rule Change & citation

and Description changed

of Change(s)

Made

None

MCL 24.242 and 24.245