Bill Text: NY S02839 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires energy suppliers to supply generators to all emergency shelters and cooling centers for use in emergency situations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02839 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02839-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2839

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring energy
          suppliers to supply generators to all emergency shelters  and  cooling
          centers for use in emergency situations

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

     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  66-q to read as follows:
     3    §  66-q.  Generators  for  emergency shelters and cooling centers.  1.
     4  Every electric corporation which provides electricity to  any  temporary
     5  emergency  shelter  or  cooling  center in this state shall provide each
     6  such temporary emergency shelter or cooling  center  with  an  alternate
     7  generated  power  source  for use in emergency situations where electric
     8  service has been disrupted.
     9    2. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the
    10  following meanings:
    11    (a) "Alternate generated power source" shall mean electric  generating
    12  equipment  that is capable of providing adequate electricity to support,
    13  at a minimum, necessary  lighting,  heating,  cooling,  and  life-safety
    14  systems  within  a  temporary emergency shelter or cooling center, which
    15  can operate independent  of  the  local  electric  utility  distribution
    16  system and provide electricity during a general power outage or declared
    17  energy or fuel supply emergency, including a natural disaster.
    18    (b)  "Cooling  center" shall mean a public space where individuals may
    19  go to seek shelter from extreme hot weather, and which has  been  desig-
    20  nated  as  such  by  the New York state department of health, by the New
    21  York city department of health, or by any  local  health  department  in
    22  this state.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06660-01-1

        S. 2839                             2

     1    (c)  "Temporary  emergency  shelter"  shall  mean an emergency shelter
     2  established pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-v of  the  social
     3  services law.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     5  it shall have become a law.
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