Bill Text: NY S08795 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8795 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires facilities offering dialysis services to have an alternate generated power source for use during a general power outage or disaster emergency; exemptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S08795 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08795-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8795--C
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 18, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to dialysis center disas-
          ter preparedness plans
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new  section  23-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 23-d. Facilities offering dialysis services. All facilities offering
     4  dialysis services shall have an alternate power source. For the purposes
     5  of this section "alternate power source" means equipment that is capable
     6  of  providing adequate electricity to operate all equipment necessary to
     7  provide individuals with dialysis services which can operate independent
     8  of the local electric utility distribution system and provide  electric-
     9  ity  during a general power outage or disaster emergency declared pursu-
    10  ant to section twenty-eight of this article.   The  provisions  of  this
    11  section  shall  not  be  construed to apply to a patient's home or other
    12  location where the primary purpose of that location is  not  to  provide
    13  health care, including a training location that trains patients on dial-
    14  ysis  therapies  intended  to  be   conducted primarily by one's self in
    15  their own home or other location.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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