A5894 • 2025

Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority

Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Sam Berger
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: Passed Senate
Effective date: Not listed

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Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority

Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority for the purposes of providing services under the workers' compensation law; includes such practitioners as providers.

What This Bill Does

Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority for the purposes of providing services under the workers' compensation law; includes such practitioners as providers.

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Bill History

2026-06-02 Senate
SUBSTITUTED FOR S6912A
2026-06-02 Senate
3RD READING CAL.356
2026-06-02 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-02 Senate
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-02-24 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-02-24 Assembly
DELIVERED TO SENATE
2026-02-24 Senate
REFERRED TO LABOR
2026-01-07 Senate
DIED IN SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.147
2025-05-29 Assembly
REPORTED
2025-05-29 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.323
2025-05-29 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.323
2025-05-29 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2025-05-29 Assembly
DELIVERED TO SENATE
2025-05-29 Senate
REFERRED TO LABOR
2025-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2025-05-14 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR
2025-05-14 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 5894A
2025-02-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority
Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority for the purposes of providing services under the workers' compensation law; includes such practitioners as providers.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5894

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    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