Bill Text: NY S03969 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3969
                               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
        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 a duly licensed occupational therapy assistant  licensed
     7  by  the  state  education  department  pursuant  to  article one hundred
     8  fifty-six of the education law.   Where  occupational  therapy  care  is
     9  rendered  records of the patient's condition and progress, together with
    10  records of instruction for treatment, if any shall be maintained by  the
    11  occupational therapist and physician. Said records shall be submitted to
    12  the  chair  on forms and at such times as the chair may require.  A duly
    13  licensed occupational therapy  assistant  shall  not  be  authorized  to
    14  perform independent medical examinations.
    15    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06525-01-9
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