Bill Text: IN SB0453 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Dialysis facility backup generators.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-10 - First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services [SB0453 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-SB0453-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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SENATE BILL No. 453

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 16-18-2-94.5; IC 16-46-8-11.

Synopsis: Dialysis facility backup generators. Requires certain dialysis facilities to install and maintain backup emergency generators. Requires the state department of health to adopt guidelines concerning the installation, capacity, testing, and use of backup emergency generators. Requires the state department of health to submit a report to the general assembly concerning compliance.

Effective: July 1, 2013.

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Breaux

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    January 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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SENATE BILL No. 453

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 16-18-2-94.5; (13)IN0453.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 16-18-2-94.5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 94.5. "Dialysis facility" for purposes of IC 16-46-8-11, has the meaning set forth in IC 16-46-8-11(a).

SOURCE: IC 16-46-8-11; (13)IN0453.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 16-46-8-11 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 11. (a) As used in this section, "dialysis facility" means an outpatient facility that provides:
        (1) dialysis treatment on an outpatient basis; or
        (2) training for home dialysis treatment.
The term does not include a dialysis facility at a hospital.
    (b) Beginning July 1, 2014, a dialysis facility must do the following:
        (1) Have a backup emergency generator with sufficient capacity to:
            (A) provide electricity necessary to sustain dialysis

treatments; and
            (B) maintain water pressure levels required to operate the facility's dialysis treatment system.
        (2) Maintain enough fuel on the premises to maintain operation of the backup emergency generator for at least forty-eight (48) hours.
        (3) Test the backup emergency generator by operating it for at least thirty (30) minutes every month.
     (c) Before January 1, 2014, the state department:
        (1) shall adopt guidelines; and
        (2) may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2;
concerning the installation, capacity, testing, and use of backup emergency generators required under this section.
    (d) Before January 1, 2015, the state department shall submit a report to the general assembly that identifies each dialysis facility operating in Indiana and each facility's level of compliance with this section. The report must be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.