STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8795 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 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 generated power source. For 5 the purposes of this section "alternate generated power source" means 6 electric generating equipment that is of a capacity that is capable of 7 providing adequate electricity to operate all equipment necessary to 8 provide individuals with dialysis services which can operate independent 9 of the local electric utility distribution system and provide electric- 10 ity during a general power outage or disaster emergency declared pursu- 11 ant to section twenty-eight of this article. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03447-01-7