S6912 • 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: Christopher Ryan
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
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 BY A5894A
2026-02-25 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-24 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-02-11 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.356
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO LABOR
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-05-29 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-28 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-27 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1298
2025-05-19 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR
2025-05-19 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 6912A
2025-03-26 Senate
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.

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

                                          6912

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     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