Bill Text: NY A10991 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines medical needs for essential electricity as including but not limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass respirators, hemodialysis machines, IV feeding machines, IV medical infusion machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators, respirator/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, tank type respirators, as well as any medical equipment or equipment necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significantly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power that will adversely impact that individual's health.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A10991 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10991-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10991

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sayegh) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to defining medical
          needs for essential electricity

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of
     2  section 66 of the public service law, as added by section 4 of part X of
     3  chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (iii) identification of and outreach plans to customers who had  docu-
     5  mented  their  need  for  essential electricity for medical needs, which
     6  shall include but not be limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass
     7  respirators, hemodialysis machines,  IV  feeding  machines,  IV  medical
     8  infusion  machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators,
     9  respirator/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines,  tank
    10  type  respirators,  as well as any medical equipment or equipment neces-
    11  sary for an individual whose diagnosis is  likely  to  be  significantly
    12  triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power that
    13  will adversely impact that individual's health;
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17102-02-0