Requires facilities offering dialysis services to have an alternate generated power source for use during a general power outage or disaster emergency; exemptions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8795--C
IN SENATE
May 18, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to dialysis center disas-
ter preparedness plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 23-d
2 to read as follows:
3 § 23-d. Facilities offering dialysis services. All facilities offering
4 dialysis services shall have an alternate power source. For the purposes
5 of this section "alternate power source" means equipment that is capable
6 of providing adequate electricity to operate all equipment necessary to
7 provide individuals with dialysis services which can operate independent
8 of the local electric utility distribution system and provide electric-
9 ity during a general power outage or disaster emergency declared pursu-
10 ant to section twenty-eight of this article. The provisions of this
11 section shall not be construed to apply to a patient's home or other
12 location where the primary purpose of that location is not to provide
13 health care, including a training location that trains patients on dial-
14 ysis therapies intended to be conducted primarily by one's self in
15 their own home or other location.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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