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:  
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:  
2023-53 LR  
Title of proposed rule set:  
Physical Therapy – General Rules  
3. Purpose for the proposed rules and background:  
The Physical Therapy – General Rules pertain to education, examinations, training, licenses, and  
professional development requirements for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.  
Amendment of the rules will take place to supply clarity on definitions, telehealth, prescriptions,  
human trafficking training, program accreditation, examinations, licensure,  
endorsement, relicensure, requirements for graduates of non-accredited institutions, delegation, and  
professional development requirements.  
4. Summary of proposed rules:  
MCL 24.242 and 24.245  
Agency Report to JCAR-Page 2  
The proposed revisions to the rules include grammatical or typographical edits to follow current  
drafting standards and to supply clarification for easier reading, adopts updated educational standards,  
removes the jurisprudence examination, supplies clarifying conditions under which the board will  
consider a request from an applicant for an appeal of current examination policies, supplies simpler  
proof requirements related to the examination, licensure in another jurisdiction, and professional  
development requirements for the purposes of relicensure, changes the amount of professional  
development requirements a licensee must complete and the period in which a licensee must  
complete professional development requirements, consistent with the change in the length of the  
license cycle, clarifies the ways to satisfy professional development requirements, and clarifies that a  
licensee who completes implicit bias training under R 338.7004 may also use that training toward  
fulfillment of continuing education requirements.  
5. List names of newspapers in which the notice of public hearing was published and  
publication dates:  
The Flint Journal, June 6, 2025  
The Grand Rapids Press, June 10, 2025  
The Escanaba Daily Press, July 5, 2025  
6. Date of publication of rules and notice of public hearing in Michigan Register:  
7/15/2025  
7. Date, time, and location of public hearing:  
7/25/2025 09:00 AM at UL-5 , 611 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=1480  
9. List of the name and title of agency representative(s) who attended the public hearing:  
Weston MacIntosh, Departmental Specialist, Bureau of Professional Licensing  
Kerry Przybylo, Manager, Bureau of Professional Licensing  
10. Persons submitting comments of support:  
None.  
11. Persons submitting comments of opposition:  
None.  
12. Persons submitting other comments:  
Sara Arena  
Craig Miller  
Susan Talley  
13. Identify any changes made to the proposed rules based on comments received during the  
public comment period:  
MCL 24.242 and 24.245  
Agency Report to JCAR-Page 3  
Name &  
Organization public hearing  
Comments made at Written  
Agency Rationale Rule number  
for Rule Change & citation  
and Description changed  
of Change(s)  
Comments  
Made  
1
Craig Miller  
The self-  
assessment tool and the Board  
developed with agree with the  
The Department  
R 338.7163  
(4)(s) and (5)  
(s)  
the FSBPT was comment.  
recently updated  
to have 9 active  
modules with the  
10th and final  
module expected  
to be available  
this year.  
Therefore, I  
would propose  
that LARA  
consider  
accepting the full  
potentially  
allowable PDRs  
of 10 during a  
licensee’s  
renewal period  
for both PTs and  
PTAs.  
14.Date report completed:  
10/29/2025  
MCL 24.242 and 24.245  
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