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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7293
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 10, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, MILLMAN, BENEDETTO, KELLNER, COLTON,
          ROSENTHAL,  CYMBROWITZ,  BROOK-KRASNY,  WEPRIN,   LIFTON,   GABRYSZAK,
          MAISEL,  SCARBOROUGH,  SCHIMEL, RYAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          ABBATE, ABINANTI, BRENNAN, HEVESI, LUPARDO, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, RAIA,
          RIVERA, RUSSELL, SALADINO, SWEENEY, TENNEY -- read once  and  referred

          to the Committee on Labor
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to physical
          therapy care provided through the workers' compensation system
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) 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    (d)  Upon  the  referral  which may be directive as to treatment of an
     5  authorized physician physical therapy care may be  rendered  by  a  duly
     6  licensed physical therapist or by a certified physical therapist assist-
     7  ant.    Where physical therapy care is rendered records of the patient's
     8  condition and progress, together with records of instruction for  treat-

     9  ment,  if  any, shall be maintained by the physical therapist and physi-
    10  cian. Said records shall be submitted to the chair on such forms and  at
    11  such times as the chair may require.
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02814-01-3