Introduced Version
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.
January 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
Introduced
First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)
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SENATE BILL No. 453
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.