---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health occupations: health professionals; additional individual present during certain examinations of minors; require under certain circumstances and require consent. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding secs. 16279 & 16279a."
description: "Health occupations: health professionals; additional individual present during certain examinations of minors; require under certain circumstances and require consent. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding secs. 16279 & 16279a."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mi"
legislature: "Michigan Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SB 69"
citation: "Michigan SB 69 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health occupations: health professionals", "Health: children", "State agencies (existing): licensing and regulatory affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lana Theis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51b1b0ba-875b-4c97-9d68-5d4cc3cece2f"
source_url: "https://legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2023-SB-0069"
source_hash: "e0299077517da8b01a98561cdb93c9a5dc0efdd6d3a8806b722476ee89f4212e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mi"]
---

# Michigan SB 69 (2023-2024) — Health occupations: health professionals; additional individual present during certain examinations of minors; require under certain circumstances and require consent. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding secs. 16279 & 16279a.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Passed by the House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billengrossed/Senate/pdf/2023-SEBH-0069.pdf)
2. **As Passed by the Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billengrossed/Senate/pdf/2023-SEBS-0069.pdf)
3. **Public Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/publicact/pdf/2023-PA-0060.pdf)
4. **Senate Introduced Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/pdf/2023-SIB-0069.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSED ROLL CALL # 151 YEAS 38 NAYS 0 EXCUSED 0 NOT VOTING 0 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- passed; given immediate effect Roll Call # 196 Yeas 105 Nays 4 Excused 0 Not Voting 1 — **105–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lana Theis — primary (person)
- Dan Lauwers — cosponsor (person)
- Dayna Polehanki — cosponsor (person)
- Erika Geiss — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph N. Bellino Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mary Cavanagh — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Wojno — cosponsor (person)
- Rosemary Bayer — cosponsor (person)
- Sean McCann — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Sue Shink — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-16** INTRODUCED BY SENATOR LANA THEIS `introduction`
- **2023-02-16** REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS, JUDICIARY, AND PUBLIC SAFETY `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-25** REFERRED TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT(S) `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-03** PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING
- **2023-05-04** PASSED ROLL CALL # 151 YEAS 38 NAYS 0 EXCUSED 0 NOT VOTING 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** received on 05/04/2023 `introduction`
- **2023-05-04** read a first time `reading-1`
- **2023-05-04** referred to Committee on Health Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-08** reported with recommendation without amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-08** referred to second reading
- **2023-06-20** read a second time `reading-2`
- **2023-06-20** placed on third reading
- **2023-06-21** read a third time `reading-3`
- **2023-06-21** passed; given immediate effect Roll Call # 196 Yeas 105 Nays 4 Excused 0 Not Voting 1 `passage`
- **2023-06-21** inserted full title
- **2023-06-21** returned to Senate
- **2023-06-27** GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT
- **2023-06-27** FULL TITLE AGREED TO
- **2023-06-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-07-18** PRESENTED TO GOVERNOR 07/06/2023 01:58 PM `executive-receipt`
- **2023-07-18** APPROVED BY GOVERNOR 07/11/2023 12:40 PM `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-18** FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE 07/12/2023 10:12 AM
- **2023-07-18** ASSIGNED PA 0060'23 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51b1b0ba-875b-4c97-9d68-5d4cc3cece2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Michigan legislature records).