Senate Bill S5520

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for the performance of medical services by physician assistants

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • 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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2023-S5520 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5012
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6542, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9233

2023-S5520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-S5520 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5520
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               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:
 
   Section 1. Section 6542 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION ONE OR TWO OF THIS SECTION, A PHYSI-
 CIAN ASSISTANT LICENSED UNDER THIS ARTICLE MAY PERFORM MEDICAL  SERVICES
 WITHOUT  THE  SUPERVISION OF A PHYSICIAN AS APPROPRIATE TO THE PHYSICIAN
 ASSISTANT'S SCOPE OF PRACTICE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING WHERE SUCH  PHYSI-
 CIAN  ASSISTANT  HAS  PRACTICED FOR MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
 HOURS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law  and  shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
 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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