House Health Pol Jun 11/25 2025: licensing compacts, contact lenses, seizure driving restrictions, deregulate requirement for Speech Medicaid coverage

Critical impact notes below. The passing status of all bills can be checked here.

Non-health policy bills are in italics.

Wednesday, June 11, 2025     9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 4527 (Rep. VanderWall)
Disabilities: other; penalties for certain violations to provision in use of travel aids by blind persons act; increase.

HB 4528 (Rep. Tisdel)
Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for driver causing death of blind person or dog guide in crosswalk; enact.

HB 4558 (Rep. VanderWall)
Health: occupations; examination and evaluation for purchase of contact lenses; allow to be in person or by telemedicine.

SB 303 (Sen. Hauck)
Health occupations: physicians; interstate medical licensure compact; update.

Presentation on focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) Awareness Day

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025     9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 4306 (Rep. VanderWall)
Traffic control: driver license; exceptions to driver license suspension for certain individuals who suffered an epileptic seizure; provide for.

HB 4307 (Rep. DeBoer)
Health occupations: physicians; voluntary reporting to secretary of state patients with certain conditions that affect ability to operate a motor vehicle; modify.

HB 4484 (Rep. Fox)
Human services: medical services; coverage policies for speech-language pathologists; modify.

HB 4509 (Rep. Meerman)
Health occupations: audiologists; audiologist and speech language pathologist licensure compact; provide for.

HB 4558 (Rep. VanderWall)
Health: occupations; examination and evaluation for purchase of contact lenses; allow to be in person or by telemedicine.

HB 4591 (Rep. Bohnak)
Health occupations: counselors; professional counselors licensure compact; provide for.

SB 303 (Sen. Hauck)
Health occupations: physicians; interstate medical licensure compact; update.

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HBs 4509, 4591, SB 303

A legislator on the R side claims health licensing compacts provide reciprocity. This is untrue.

Reciprocity is a simple state decision to honor another state's license. No new rules, agencies, or government authority.

These compacts provide new, unaccountable expert commission control over clinicians, and our healthcare freedom position opposing them has not changed.

HB 4484 is different.

It's rare to see bills that limit MDHHS power. This one rolls back a national certificate requirement MDHHS placed on Speech Language Pathology for Medicaid reimbursement.

HB 4558 

Online contact lens exam and purchase is a huge money-saver for patients.

Unfortunately, Michigan's ophthalmology lobby is powerful enough to neutralize bills like this every time to date. All it takes is a clause or two.... watch and see.