Bill Text: NY S08898 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8898

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 11, 2020
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        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 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