MI HB5115

Expands delegation authority to physician's assistants holding health profession subfield licenses under parts 170, 175, or 180, in addition to other licensed healthcare professionals.

Defines "qualified licensee" to include physicians and other licensed professionals, plus physician's assistants with subfield licenses, allowing them to delegate acts, tasks, or functions to licensed or unlicensed individuals under supervision.

Maintains existing restrictions that physician's assistants and physicians cannot delegate surgical procedures requiring instrumentation to unlicensed individuals, except for students, specific exceptions (acupuncture, organ/tissue recovery), and directly supervised surgical technologists or surgical first assistants.

Allows boards or task forces to promulgate rules to prohibit or restrict delegation of specific acts, tasks, or functions and to specify supervision requirements for delegated healthcare tasks.

Makes clarifying language changes including replacing pronoun references with gender-neutral terminology and correcting citation references throughout the statute.