New York Senate Bill S03244 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3244 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 30, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs 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. LBD07829-01-3