Bill Text: NY S04499 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Relates to the licensure of athletic trainers; provides certain exemptions and requires continuing education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - referred to higher education [S04499 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S04499-Amended.html
Bill Title: Relates to the licensure of athletic trainers; provides certain exemptions and requires continuing education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - referred to higher education [S04499 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S04499-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4499--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 25, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, GRIFFO, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the licensure of athletic trainers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 8351 of the education law, as amended by chapter 2 658 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 8351. Definition. As used in this article "athletic trainer" means 4 any person who is duly [certified] licensed in accordance with this 5 article to perform athletic training under the supervision of a physi- 6 cian [and limits his or her practice to secondary schools, institutions7of postsecondary education, professional athletic organizations, or a8person who, under the supervision of a physician, carries out comparable9functions on orthopedic athletic injuries, excluding spinal cord inju-10ries, in a health care organization] and carries out the practice of 11 prevention, recognition, examination, evaluation, management, treatment 12 and rehabilitation of injuries and sports related medical conditions. 13 [Supervision of an athletic trainer] Athletic trainers are health care 14 professionals, whose supervision by a physician shall be continuous but 15 shall not be construed as requiring the physical presence of the super- 16 vising physician at the time and place where such services are 17 performed. 18 [The scope of work described herein shall not be construed as author-19izing the reconditioning of neurologic injuries, conditions or disease.] 20 § 2. Section 8352 of the education law, as amended by chapter 658 of 21 the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03316-08-6