Bill Text: NY A06440 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


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 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - REFERRED TO RULES [A06440 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06440-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6440
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, CRESPO, TAYLOR -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        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.
                                                                   LBD04743-01-9
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