Bill Text: NY A05012 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits the performance of medical services by a physician assistant without the supervision of a physician as appropriate to the physician assistant's scope of practice, education and training where such physician assistant has practiced for more than three thousand six hundred hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A05012 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05012-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5012

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  the  performance  of
          medical services by physician assistants; and providing for the repeal
          of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Section 6542 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  Notwithstanding subdivision one or two of this section, a physi-
     4  cian assistant licensed under this article may perform medical  services
     5  without  the  supervision of a physician as appropriate to the physician
     6  assistant's scope of practice, education and training where such  physi-
     7  cian  assistant  has  practiced for more than three thousand six hundred
     8  hours.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have  become  a  law  and  shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
    11  after such date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03893-01-3
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