What's happening
This bill requires all dialysis centers in New York to have an alternate power source to ensure services during power outages or emergencies.
Why it matters
Ensures uninterrupted dialysis care. By requiring alternate power sources, the bill aims to protect dialysis patients—who are medically vulnerable—from dangerous interruptions in treatment during power outages or disasters.
Mandates facility-level preparedness. The law puts the onus on dialysis centers (not individuals or home-based therapies) to invest in and maintain backup power, strengthening the resilience of critical health infrastructure.
Addresses disaster and emergency scenarios. The requirement is specifically tied to general power outages and declared disaster emergencies, reflecting increased attention to climate-related events and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Clarifies scope and exemptions. The bill explicitly excludes private homes and training locations, focusing regulatory requirements solely on professional healthcare facilities, thus minimizing undue burden on patients managing their own care at home.
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Require Backup Power for Dialysis
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2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.237
- Advanced to third reading cal.352
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to governmental operations
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Backup Power for Dialysis Centers
In Senate Committee · Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs · Sponsor Luis R. Sepúlveda
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6440
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, CRESPO, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to dialysis center disaster preparedness plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 23-d to read as follows:
§ 23-d. Facilities offering dialysis services. All facilities offering dialysis services shall have an alternate power source. For the purposes of this section "alternate power source" means equipment that is capable of providing adequate electricity to operate all equipment necessary to provide individuals with dialysis services which can operate independent of the local electric utility distribution system and provide electricity during a general power outage or disaster emergency declared pursuant to section twenty-eight of this article. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to a patient's home or other location where the primary purpose of that location is not to provide health care, including a training location that trains patients on dialysis therapies intended to be conducted primarily by one's self in their own home or other location.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04743-01-9
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