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

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8795--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 18, 2018
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        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
        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 one hundred eightieth day after
    13  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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