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.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5130
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 12, 2025
___________
Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed two years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.
LBD09160-01-5
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