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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4499--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 25, 2015
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        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,  institutions
     7  of  postsecondary  education,  professional athletic organizations, or a
     8  person who, under the supervision of a physician, carries out comparable
     9  functions on orthopedic athletic injuries, excluding spinal  cord  inju-
    10  ries,  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-
    19  izing 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.
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