The New York State Senate

 
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                                   2225
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             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:
 
   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.
                                                            LBD03965-01-3

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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.