Bill Text: NY S08795 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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--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. LBD03447-08-8
