Bill Text: NY S08743 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8743 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational therapy assistant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-22 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S08743 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08743-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8743
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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.
                                                                   LBD04628-06-8