Senate Bill S2362

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the defense and indemnification of optometrists rendering certain services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S2362 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6098
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7.35, 13.35 & 19.35, Ment Hyg L

2009-S2362 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the defense and indemnification of optometrists rendering certain services.

2009-S2362 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2362 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2362

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 18, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. HUNTLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
  mental Disabilities

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  defense  and
  indemnification of optometrists rendering certain services

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 7.35 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chap-
ter 230 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
S 7.35 Actions against persons rendering professional  services  at  the
         request of the office; defense and indemnification.
  The  provisions  of section seventeen of the public officers law shall
apply to  any  physician,  dentist,  psychologist,  nurse,  OPTOMETRIST,
licensed  master  social  worker,  or  licensed  clinical social worker,
licensed to practice pursuant to the education  law,  who  is  rendering
professional  treatment  authorized under such license at the request of
the office or an office facility to patients receiving care  or  profes-
sional  consultation  from  the office while rendering such professional
treatment.
  S 2. Section 13.35 of the mental hygiene law, as  amended  by  chapter
230 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
S 13.35 Actions  against  persons rendering professional services at the
          request of the office; defense and indemnification.
  The provisions of section seventeen of the public officers  law  shall
apply  to  any  physician,  dentist,  psychologist,  nurse, OPTOMETRIST,
licensed master social  worker,  or  licensed  clinical  social  worker,
licensed  to  practice  pursuant  to the education law, who is rendering
professional treatment authorized under such license at the  request  of
the  office  or an office facility to patients receiving care or profes-
sional consultation from the office while  rendering  such  professional
treatment.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09455-01-9
              

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