S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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987
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
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:
Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of
section 66 of the public service law, as amended by 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 essen-
tial electricity for medical needs, as proposed in legislative bills
numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows:
(iii) identification of and outreach plans to customers who had docu-
mented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, which
shall include but not be 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, AND
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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necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-
ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power
that will adversely impact that individual's health];
§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (cc) of section 1020-f of the public
authorities law, as amended by 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 legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and
A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows:
1. The service provider shall, in consultation with the authority,
prepare and maintain an emergency response plan (i) to assure the
reasonably prompt restoration of service in the case of an emergency
event, defined for purposes of this subdivision as an event where wide-
spread outages have occurred in the authority's service territory due to
a storm or other causes beyond the control of the authority and the
service provider, (ii) consistent with the requirements of paragraph (a)
of subdivision twenty-one of section sixty-six of the public service law
and any regulations and orders adopted thereto, and (iii) establishing
the separate responsibilities of the authority and service provider.
Such emergency response plan shall include identification of and
outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen-
tial electricity for medical needs, which shall include but not be
limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass respirators, hemodialy-
sis machines, intravenous feeding machines, intravenous medical infusion
machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators,
respirators/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, AND
tank type respirators[, as well as any medical equipment or equipment
necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significant-
ly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power
that will adversely impact that individual's health].
§ 3. Section 3 of 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 legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is
amended to read as follows:
§ 3. This act shall take effect [immediately] ON THE ONE HUNDRED
EIGHTIETH DAY AFTER IT SHALL HAVE BECOME A LAW.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
sections one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and
the same manner as 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 legislative bills numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, takes
effect.