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