Bill Text: NY S01797 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the performance of medical services by physician assistants.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01797 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01797-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1797
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  the  employment  and
          supervision of physician assistants
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 5 of section 6542 of the education  law,
     2  as amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, are
     3  amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
     4    3.  No  physician shall [employ or] supervise more than four physician
     5  assistants at any one time in his or her private practice.
     6    5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, nothing  shall
     7  prohibit a physician employed by or rendering services to the department
     8  of corrections and community supervision under contract from supervising
     9  no  more  than  six  physician  assistants at any one time in his or her
    10  practice for the department of corrections and community supervision.
    11    8. Nothing in subdivision three or  five  of  this  section  shall  be
    12  construed  to  modify  the  conditions  relating  to  the performance of
    13  medical services required under subdivision one of this section.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    16  any  rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this
    17  act on its effective date are authorized to  be  added,  amended  and/or
    18  repealed on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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