STATE OF NEW YORK
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6996
IN SENATE
April 11, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- 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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) 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 (e) Upon the prescription or referral of an authorized physician occu-
5 pational therapy care may be rendered by a duly licensed occupational
6 therapist or by an occupational therapy assistant registered with the
7 state education department. Where occupational therapy care is rendered
8 records of the patient's condition and progress, together with records
9 of instruction for treatment, if any shall be maintained by the occupa-
10 tional therapist and physician. Said records shall be submitted to the
11 chair on forms and at 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.
LBD11413-01-3
