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 This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed two years 11 after such date.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
