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| May 10, 2018 | referred to labor |
senate Bill S8743
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Luis R. Sepúlveda
(D) 32nd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
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S8743 (ACTIVE) - Details
S8743 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8743 SPONSOR: SEPULVEDA TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to authoriz- ing treatment of workers' compensation injuries by an occupational ther- apy assistant PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill allows occupational therapist assistants to provide care to workers' compensation patients. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one of the bill amends paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 13-b of the workers' compensation law as it relates to allowing occupa- tional therapy assistants to provide care to workers' compensation patients.
S8743 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8743
I N S E N A T E
May 10, 2018
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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:
Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 13-b of the work-
ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 473 of the laws of 2000, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) Upon the prescription or referral of an authorized physician occu-
pational therapy care may be rendered by a duly licensed occupational
therapist OR BY A DULY LICENSED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT LICENSED
BY THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
FIFTY-SIX OF THE EDUCATION LAW. Where occupational therapy care is
rendered records of the patient's condition and progress, together with
records of instruction for treatment, if any shall be maintained by the
occupational therapist and physician. Said records shall be submitted to
the chair on forms and at such times as the chair may require. A DULY
LICENSED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT SHALL NOT BE AUTHORIZED TO
PERFORM INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04628-06-8
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