New York Assembly Bill A05894 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5894 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to defining mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 13-b of the workers' compensation 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (r) to read as follows: 3 (r) "Mental health practitioner" shall mean an individual licensed 4 pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of the education law who has 5 met the requirements for diagnostic privilege set forth in section 6 eighty-four hundred one-a of the education law. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09924-01-5