Bill Text: NY S05520 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits the performance of medical services by a physician assistant without the supervision of a physician as appropriate to the physician assistant's scope of practice, education and training where such physician assistant has practiced for more than three thousand six hundred hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S05520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05520-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5520

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        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  performance  of
          medical services by physician assistants; and providing for the repeal
          of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 6542 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  Notwithstanding subdivision one or two of this section, a physi-
     4  cian assistant licensed under this article may perform medical  services
     5  without  the  supervision of a physician as appropriate to the physician
     6  assistant's scope of practice, education and training where such  physi-
     7  cian  assistant  has  practiced for more than three thousand six hundred
     8  hours.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have  become  a  law  and  shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
    11  after such date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03893-01-3
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