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Assembly Bill A6440

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires dialysis center disaster preparedness plans

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2019-A6440 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7571
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §23-d, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9374
2015-2016: A2726
2017-2018: A4303, S8795
2021-2022: S2788
2023-2024: S3244
2025-2026: S5036

2019-A6440 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires facilities offering dialysis services to have an alternate generated power source for use during a general power outage or disaster emergency; exemptions.

2019-A6440 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6440
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, CRESPO, TAYLOR -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 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:

   Section  1.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 23-d
 to read as follows:
   § 23-D. FACILITIES OFFERING DIALYSIS SERVICES. ALL FACILITIES OFFERING
 DIALYSIS SERVICES SHALL HAVE AN ALTERNATE POWER SOURCE. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF THIS SECTION "ALTERNATE POWER SOURCE" MEANS EQUIPMENT THAT IS CAPABLE
 OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE ELECTRICITY TO OPERATE ALL EQUIPMENT NECESSARY  TO
 PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH DIALYSIS SERVICES WHICH CAN OPERATE INDEPENDENT
 OF  THE LOCAL ELECTRIC UTILITY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND PROVIDE ELECTRIC-
 ITY DURING A GENERAL POWER OUTAGE OR DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARED  PURSU-
 ANT  TO  SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE.   THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 SECTION SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO APPLY TO A  PATIENT'S  HOME  OR  OTHER
 LOCATION  WHERE  THE  PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THAT LOCATION IS NOT TO PROVIDE
 HEALTH CARE, INCLUDING A TRAINING LOCATION THAT TRAINS PATIENTS ON DIAL-
 YSIS THERAPIES INTENDED TO BE   CONDUCTED PRIMARILY  BY  ONE'S  SELF  IN
 THEIR OWN HOME OR OTHER LOCATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04743-01-9

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