DIETICIAN & NUTRITIONIST LICENSURE S.B. 614:
SUMMARY OF INTRODUCED BILL
IN COMMITTEE
Senate Bill 614 (as introduced 7-27-21)
Sponsor: Senator Michael D. MacDonald
Committee: Health Policy and Human Services
CONTENT
The bill would add Part 183A (Dietetics and Nutrition) to the Public Health Code to do the following:
-- Establish a licensing process for dietician nutritionists and nutritionists and prescribe the requirements an individual seeking licensure as a dietician nutritionist or nutritionist would have to meet.
-- Prescribe the scope of practice for a dietician nutritionist and a nutritionist.
-- Create the Michigan Board of Dietetics and Nutrition in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), and prescribe its membership.
-- Require LARA in consultation with the Board to prescribe, by rule, continuing education requirements as a condition of license renewal.
-- Allow LARA in consultation with the Board to promulgate rules to supplement the requirements for licensure as a dietician nutritionist.
-- Require LARA in consultation with the Board to promulgate rules on appropriate supervision that were consistent with the range of prevailing professional standards.
-- Prescribe the requirements to qualify as a qualified supervisor for purposes of Part 183A.
-- Allow LARA to issue a license by endorsement to an applicant from another state that, at the time the applicant obtained his or her license from the other state, had licensure requirements substantially equivalent to Part 183A.
The bill also would amend Part 161 (General Provisions) of the Code to prescribe license fees for an individual seeking licensure as a dietician nutritionist or nutritionist under Part 183A.
Definitions
The bill specifies that in addition to the definitions in Part 183A, Article 1 (Preliminary Provisions) of the Code contains general definitions and principles of construction applicable to all articles in the Code and Part 161 contains definitions applicable to Part 183A.
Licensure
Under the bill, except as otherwise, if an individual were seeking a license as a dietitian nutritionist, he or she would have to meet all of the following requirements:
-- Hold a baccalaureate, master's, or doctoral degree from a college or university located in the State or another state that, at the time of graduation, was accredited in good standing by a United States institutional accrediting body for higher education recognized by the US Department of Education, and approved by LARA in consultation with the Board, or hold from a foreign educational institution an academic degree that was validated as equivalent by a