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--B
                    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 -- 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  electric  generating
     6  equipment  that  is  of a capacity that is capable of providing adequate
     7  electricity to operate all equipment necessary  to  provide  individuals
     8  with  dialysis services which can operate independent of the local elec-
     9  tric utility distribution system and provide electricity during a gener-
    10  al power outage or disaster emergency declared pursuant to section twen-
    11  ty-eight of this article.  The provisions of this section shall  not  be
    12  construed  to  apply  to a patient's home or other location. Whereby the
    13  primary purpose of that location is not to provide health care,  includ-
    14  ing  a  training  location  that  trains  patients on dialysis therapies
    15  intended to be  conducted primarily by one's self in their own  home  or
    16  other location.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  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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