Bill Text: NY A06416 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health and the president of the New York state energy research and development authority (NYSERDA) to study and make recommendations on the impacts of electric vehicles on personal medical devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to energy [A06416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06416-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6416

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Energy

        AN ACT in relation to directing the commissioner of health and the pres-
          ident  of the New York state energy research and development authority
          to conduct a study on the impacts of  electric  vehicles  on  personal
          medical devices

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of health and the  president  of  the  New
     2  York state energy research and development authority (NYSERDA) are here-
     3  by directed to study and make recommendations on the impacts of electric
     4  vehicles on personal medical devices.
     5    § 2. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     6    (a) analysis of the effect of the proximity to electrical power sourc-
     7  es in vehicles on medical devices, including but not limited to, cardiac
     8  implantable electronic devices; and
     9    (b)  analysis  of  electric  vehicles and electromagnetic interference
    10  (EMI) with medical devices, including, but not  limited  to,  pacemakers
    11  and defibrillators;
    12    § 3. Within one year after the effective date of this act, the commis-
    13  sioner  of  health and the president of NYSERDA shall submit a report of
    14  the findings and recommendations pursuant to this act to  the  governor,
    15  the  temporary  president  of  the  senate,  the  minority leader of the
    16  senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of  the  assem-
    17  bly,  and  the  chairs  and  ranking  members of the senate and assembly
    18  committees on health and shall post such report  on  the  department  of
    19  health's website and NYSERDA's website.
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10452-01-3