Bill Text: NY A03753 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational therapy assistant and a physical therapist assistant.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-04 - print number 3753b [A03753 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03753-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3753--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI, WEPRIN, COLTON, BENEDETTO, STECK,
          STIRPE, THIELE, DICKENS, GARBARINO, O'DONNELL -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M. of A.  McDONOUGH -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Labor  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Labor  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to authoriz-
          ing treatment of workers' compensation  injuries  by  an  occupational
          therapy assistant or physical therapy assistant

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 2 of section 13-b of the workers' compensation
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (b-1) to read as follows:
     3    (b-1) Under the direct supervision of an authorized occupational ther-
     4  apist, occupational therapy services may be rendered by an  occupational
     5  therapy  assistant.  Under the direct supervision of an authorized phys-
     6  ical therapist, physical therapy services may be rendered by a  physical
     7  therapist  assistant.  This  supervision  shall  be  evidenced by signed
     8  records  of  instructions  for  treatment  and  signed  records  of  the
     9  patient's  condition and progress.  Reports of such treatment and super-
    10  vision shall be made by  such  provider  to  the  chair  in  the  format
    11  prescribed by the chair at such times as the chair may require.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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