Bill Text: MI HB4449 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan House Bill 4449 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Insurance: no-fault; allowable expenses; eliminate requirement to reimburse for chiropractic services. Amends sec. 3107b of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.3107b).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)

Status: (Passed) 2020-07-21 - Assigned Pa 104'20 With Immediate Effect [HB4449 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4449-Chaptered.html

Act No. 104

Public Acts of 2020

Approved by the Governor

July 1, 2020

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 1, 2020

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2020

state of michigan

100th Legislature

Regular session of 2020

Introduced by Reps. Griffin, Wentworth, Frederick, Wittenberg, Ellison, Lasinski, Kennedy, Brenda Carter, Gay-Dagnogo, Hauck, Sneller, Warren, Coleman and Hoitenga

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4449

AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled �An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker�s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,� by amending section 3107b (MCL 500.3107b), as amended by 2014 PA 263.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3107b. Reimbursement or coverage for expenses within personal protection insurance coverage under section 3107 is not required for any of the following:

(a) A practice of optometry service, unless that service was included in the definition of practice of optometry under section 17401 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17401, as of May 20, 1992.

(b) A practice of chiropractic service rendered before July 2, 2021, unless that service was included in the definition of practice of chiropractic under section 16401 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16401, as of January 1, 2009.

(c) A practice of physical therapy service or practice as a physical therapist assistant service, unless that service was provided by a licensed physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist under a prescription from a health care professional who holds a license issued under part 166, 170, 175, or 180 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16601 to 333.16659, 333.17001 to 333.17097, 333.17501 to 333.17556, and 333.18001 to 333.18058, or the equivalent license issued by another state.