Bill Text: NY A11017 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lodging for such individuals and transportation for medical devices; prohibits electric companies from passing costs for such alternative measures on to rate payers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A11017 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11017-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11017

                   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 requiring elec-
          tric companies to provide alternative  measures  to  ensure  customers
          with  documented  need for essential electricity for medical needs are
          able to maintain their health and well-being during power outages

          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, including
     6  provisions  regarding  how such customers will be provided with alterna-
     7  tive measures to ensure their health  and  well-being  if  power  cannot
     8  adequately be provided. Such provisions shall include providing electric
     9  generators  or lodging for the individual requiring such essential elec-
    10  tricity for medical needs  and  shall  also  include  transportation  of
    11  medical  devices, as needed. Such provisions shall also specify that any
    12  cost incurred by an electric company in providing such alternative meas-
    13  ures shall not be borne by rate payers;
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17095-01-0