STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6912 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 26, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 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