Bill Text: NY S08895 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08895 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08895-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8895

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 11, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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
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