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STATE OF MICHIGAN  
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS  
BUREAU OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING  
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PUBLIC HEARING  
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2025  
AT ABOUT 9:00 A.M.  
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OTTAWA BUILDING - UL-5  
611 W. OTTAWA STREET  
LANSING, MICHIGAN  
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RE: Speech-Language Pathology - General Rules  
(MOAHR #2021-73 LR)  
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HEARING FACILITATOR:  
WESTON MacINTOSH  
Bureau of Professional Licensing  
611 W. Ottawa Street  
Lansing, Michigan 48909  
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22 REPORTED BY: Lori Anne Penn, CSR-1315  
40835 Woodside Drive  
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Clinton Township, Michigan 48038  
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I N D E X  
2 Opening Statement - Weston MacIntosh  
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4 COMMENTS:  
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7 Closing Statement - Weston MacIntosh  
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Lansing, Michigan  
Thursday, January 2, 2025  
At 9:00 a.m.  
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(Public hearing commenced pursuant to due notice.)  
MR. MacINTOSH: Good morning. My name is  
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Weston MacIntosh, and I'm a Departmental Specialist for  
the Bureau of Professional Licensing in the Department of  
Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, and I will be  
conducting the hearing today.  
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This is a public hearing on proposed  
administrative rules titled "Speech-Language Pathology -  
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 re calling this hearing to order at  
9:00 o'clock a.m. on January 2, 2025, in UL-5, at 611  
West Ottawa street, Lansing, Michigan. Publication of  
the notice of public hearing was in three newspapers of  
general circulation, including the Flint Journal on  
November 26, 2024, the Grand Rapids Press on November 26,  
2024, the Escanaba Daily Press on December 12, 2024, as  
well as the Michigan Register, Issue #23, published on  
January 1, 2025.  
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We are here today to receive your  
comments on the proposed rules. If you wish to speak,  
please make sure you have signed in and said that you  
wish to speak. You may use the cards supplied for this  
purpose. I will organize the cards by rule set so that  
the comments for that profession are in a group together  
in the transcript. If you would like to testify and have  
not signed in, please do so now. For those of you who do  
not wish to sign in with a card, you may speak once we've  
exhausted the stack of cards you that give to me.  
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.  
For the record, when you testify, please  
give us your name by spelling your name and the  
organization, if any, that you may be speaking for today.  
This will help the Department prepare the hearing record  
that will go before the Boards. You can give written  
statements directly to me at the table. The Department  
will also accept written statements emailed or postmarked  
until 5:00 o'clock p.m. today.  
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The Department staff from the Bureau of  
Professional Licensing also includes Kerry Przybylo.  
The rule set that we'll take comments for  
is the "Speech-Language Pathology - General Rules". Is  
there anyone who wishes to speak on the "Speech-Language  
Pathology - General Rules."  
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Hearing none.  
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If there are no other people who wish to  
speak at in time, we will take a short recess.  
(Recess from 9:03 a.m. until 9:21 a.m.)  
MR. MacINTOSH: So we're back on the  
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record. Just to check one last time, is there anyone who  
wishes to make a comment on the "Speech-Language  
Pathology - General Rules"?  
Hearing none.  
If there are no further comments at this  
time, I hereby declare the hearing closed. The record  
will remain open until today at 5:00 o'clock p.m. for any  
other comments you may wish to share about the proposed  
rules. Thank you for coming.  
(At 9:22 a.m., the public hearing concluded.)  
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1 STATE OF MICHIGAN )  
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I, Lori Anne Penn, certify that this  
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transcript consisting of 6 pages is a complete, true, and  
correct record of the Public Hearing held in the  
captioned matter on Thursday, January 2, 2025.  
I further certify that I am not  
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responsible for any copies of this transcript not made  
under my direction or control and bearing my original  
signature.  
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I also certify that I am not a relative  
or employee of or an attorney for a party; or a relative  
or employee of an attorney for a party; or financially  
interested in the action.  
January 6, 2025  
Date  
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Lor
Notan  
My Commission Expires June 15, 2025  
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