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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, CRESPO -- 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:
    1    Section  1.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 23-d
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 23-D. FACILITIES OFFERING DIALYSIS SERVICES. ALL FACILITIES OFFERING
    4  DIALYSIS SERVICES SHALL HAVE AN ALTERNATE GENERATED  POWER  SOURCE.  FOR
    5  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION "ALTERNATE GENERATED POWER SOURCE" MEANS
    6  ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT THAT IS OF A CAPACITY THAT IS  CAPABLE  OF
    7  PROVIDING  ADEQUATE  ELECTRICITY  TO  OPERATE ALL EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO
    8  PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH DIALYSIS SERVICES WHICH CAN OPERATE INDEPENDENT
    9  OF THE LOCAL ELECTRIC UTILITY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND PROVIDE  ELECTRIC-
   10  ITY  DURING A GENERAL POWER OUTAGE OR DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARED PURSU-
   11  ANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   13  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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