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
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 ________________________________________________________________________ 8795--B 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 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. LBD03447-06-8