Bill Text: NY A00987 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Removes requirements that require any medical equipment or equipment necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significantly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power that will adversely impact that individual's health; removes such requirements from an emergency response plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - signed chap.38 [A00987 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00987-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 987 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law, in relation to defining medical needs for essential electricity and to require certain service providers' emergency response plans to include outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen- tial electricity for medical needs; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the public service law and the public authorities law, relating to defining medical needs for essential electricity and requiring certain service providers' emergency response plans to include outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, as proposed in legisla- tive bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, in relation to the effec- tiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of 2 section 66 of the public service law, as amended by a chapter of the 3 laws of 2022, amending the public service law and the public authorities 4 law, relating to defining medical needs for essential electricity and 5 requiring certain service providers' emergency response plans to include 6 outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen- 7 tial electricity for medical needs, as proposed in legislative bills 8 numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows: 9 (iii) identification of and outreach plans to customers who had docu- 10 mented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, which 11 shall include but not be limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass 12 respirators, hemodialysis machines, IV feeding machines, IV medical 13 infusion machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators, 14 respirator/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, and 15 tank type respirators[, as well as any medical equipment or equipmentEXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03965-01-3A. 987 2 1necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-2ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power3that will adversely impact that individual's health]; 4 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (cc) of section 1020-f of the public 5 authorities law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending 6 the public service law and the public authorities law, relating to 7 defining medical needs for essential electricity and requiring certain 8 service providers' emergency response plans to include outreach plans 9 for customers who have documented their need for essential electricity 10 for medical needs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and 11 A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows: 12 1. The service provider shall, in consultation with the authority, 13 prepare and maintain an emergency response plan (i) to assure the 14 reasonably prompt restoration of service in the case of an emergency 15 event, defined for purposes of this subdivision as an event where wide- 16 spread outages have occurred in the authority's service territory due to 17 a storm or other causes beyond the control of the authority and the 18 service provider, (ii) consistent with the requirements of paragraph (a) 19 of subdivision twenty-one of section sixty-six of the public service law 20 and any regulations and orders adopted thereto, and (iii) establishing 21 the separate responsibilities of the authority and service provider. 22 Such emergency response plan shall include identification of and 23 outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen- 24 tial electricity for medical needs, which shall include but not be 25 limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass respirators, hemodialy- 26 sis machines, intravenous feeding machines, intravenous medical infusion 27 machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators, 28 respirators/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, and 29 tank type respirators[, as well as any medical equipment or equipment30necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-31ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power32that will adversely impact that individual's health]. 33 § 3. Section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the public 34 service law and the public authorities law, relating to defining medical 35 needs for essential electricity and requiring certain service providers' 36 emergency response plans to include outreach plans for customers who 37 have documented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, 38 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is 39 amended to read as follows: 40 § 3. This act shall take effect [immediately] on the one hundred 41 eightieth day after it shall have become a law. 42 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 43 sections one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and 44 the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the public 45 service law and the public authorities law, relating to defining medical 46 needs for essential electricity and requiring certain service providers' 47 emergency response plans to include outreach plans for customers who 48 have documented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, 49 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, takes 50 effect.