Bill Text: NY A00987 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                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 equipment

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03965-01-3
        A. 987                              2

     1  necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-
     2  ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss  of  power
     3  that 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  equipment
    30  necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-
    31  ly  triggered  or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power
    32  that  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.