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                                  931--A
     Cal. No. 115
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
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 Introduced  by Sens. KAPLAN, GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
   communications  --  reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
   first and second report, ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 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
 
   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 added by section 4 of part X of
 chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, 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,  TANK
 TYPE  RESPIRATORS,  AS WELL AS ANY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OR EQUIPMENT NECES-
 SARY 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;
   §  2.  Paragraph 1 of subdivision (cc) of section 1020-f of the public
 authorities law, as added by section 7 of part A of chapter 173  of  the
 laws of 2013, 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
 
              

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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, TANK
 TYPE  RESPIRATORS,  AS WELL AS ANY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OR EQUIPMENT NECES-
 SARY 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.