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
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3969--A 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 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 same date and in the same 13 manner as section 1 of part CC of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019, takes 14 effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06525-04-9