Directs the commissioner of health and the president of the New York state energy research and development authority (NYSERDA) to study and make recommendations on the impacts of electric vehicles on personal medical devices.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4795
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, DiPIETRO, BEEPHAN, HAWLEY, ANGELINO --
read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT in relation to directing the commissioner of health and the pres-
ident of the New York state energy research and development authority
to conduct a study on the impacts of electric vehicles on personal
medical devices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of health and the president of the New
2 York state energy research and development authority (NYSERDA) are here-
3 by directed to study and make recommendations on the impacts of electric
4 vehicles on personal medical devices.
5 § 2. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
6 (a) analysis of the effect of the proximity to electrical power sourc-
7 es in vehicles on medical devices, including but not limited to, cardiac
8 implantable electronic devices; and
9 (b) analysis of electric vehicles and electromagnetic interference
10 (EMI) with medical devices, including, but not limited to, pacemakers
11 and defibrillators;
12 § 3. Within one year after the effective date of this act, the commis-
13 sioner of health and the president of NYSERDA shall submit a report of
14 the findings and recommendations pursuant to this act to the governor,
15 the temporary president of the senate, the minority leader of the
16 senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assem-
17 bly, and the chairs and ranking members of the senate and assembly
18 committees on health and shall post such report on the department of
19 health's website and NYSERDA's website.
20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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