Amd §66, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-f, Pub Auth L; amd §3, Chap of 2022 (as proposed in S.931-A & A.3217-A)
Removes requirements that require 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; removes such requirements from an emergency response plan.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
in relation to defining medical needs for essential electricity and to
require certain service providers' emergency response plans to include
outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen-
tial electricity for medical needs; and to amend a chapter of the laws
of 2022, amending the public service law and the public authorities
law, relating to defining medical needs for essential electricity and
requiring certain service providers' emergency response plans to
include outreach plans for customers who have documented their need
for essential electricity for medical needs, as proposed in legisla-
tive bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, in relation to the effec-
tiveness thereof
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 amended by a chapter of the
3 laws of 2022, amending the public service law and the public authorities
4 law, relating to defining medical needs for essential electricity and
5 requiring certain service providers' emergency response plans to include
6 outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen-
7 tial electricity for medical needs, as proposed in legislative bills
8 numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows:
9 (iii) identification of and outreach plans to customers who had docu-
10 mented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, which
11 shall include but not be limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass
12 respirators, hemodialysis machines, IV feeding machines, IV medical
13 infusion machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators,
14 respirator/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, and
15 tank type respirators[, as well as any medical equipment or equipment
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-
2 ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power
3 that will adversely impact that individual's health];
4 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (cc) of section 1020-f of the public
5 authorities law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending
6 the public service law and the public authorities law, relating to
7 defining medical needs for essential electricity and requiring certain
8 service providers' emergency response plans to include outreach plans
9 for customers who have documented their need for essential electricity
10 for medical needs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and
11 A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows:
12 1. The service provider shall, in consultation with the authority,
13 prepare and maintain an emergency response plan (i) to assure the
14 reasonably prompt restoration of service in the case of an emergency
15 event, defined for purposes of this subdivision as an event where wide-
16 spread outages have occurred in the authority's service territory due to
17 a storm or other causes beyond the control of the authority and the
18 service provider, (ii) consistent with the requirements of paragraph (a)
19 of subdivision twenty-one of section sixty-six of the public service law
20 and any regulations and orders adopted thereto, and (iii) establishing
21 the separate responsibilities of the authority and service provider.
22 Such emergency response plan shall include identification of and
23 outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen-
24 tial electricity for medical needs, which shall include but not be
25 limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass respirators, hemodialy-
26 sis machines, intravenous feeding machines, intravenous medical infusion
27 machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators,
28 respirators/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, and
29 tank type respirators[, as well as any medical equipment or equipment
30 necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-
31 ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power
32 that will adversely impact that individual's health].
33 § 3. Section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the public
34 service law and the public authorities law, relating to defining medical
35 needs for essential electricity and requiring certain service providers'
36 emergency response plans to include outreach plans for customers who
37 have documented their need for essential electricity for medical needs,
38 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is
39 amended to read as follows:
40 § 3. This act shall take effect [immediately] on the one hundred
41 eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
42 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
43 sections one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and
44 the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the public
45 service law and the public authorities law, relating to defining medical
46 needs for essential electricity and requiring certain service providers'
47 emergency response plans to include outreach plans for customers who
48 have documented their need for essential electricity for medical needs,
49 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, takes
50 effect.
