Bill Text: NY S03969 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to labor [S03969 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03969-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3969--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  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 accord-
          ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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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