Bill Text: NY A07980 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational therapy assistant.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to labor [A07980 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A07980-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7980
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 13, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to authoriz-
ing treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational
therapy assistant
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 13-b of the work-
2 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 473 of the laws of 2000, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (e) Upon the prescription or referral of an authorized physician occu-
5 pational therapy care may be rendered by a duly licensed occupational
6 therapist OR BY AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT REGISTERED WITH THE
7 STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Where occupational therapy care is rendered
8 records of the patient's condition and progress, together with records
9 of instruction for treatment, if any shall be maintained by the occupa-
10 tional therapist and physician. Said records shall be submitted to the
11 chair on forms and at such times as the chair may require.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth 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.
LBD11413-01-3
