New York S 7568: Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages

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S07568 Summary:

BILL NOS07568 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02599

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §66, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-f, Pub Auth L

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Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lodging for such individuals and transportation for medical devices.

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BILL NOS07568 

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04/22/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7568

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
 cations

 AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
 in relation to requiring electric companies to provide alternative
 measures to ensure customers are able to maintain their health and
 well-being during power outages

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of
 2 section 66 of the public service law, as separately amended by chapters
 3 395 and 743 of the laws of 2022 and chapter 38 of the laws of 2023, is
 4 amended to read as follows:
 5 (iii) identification of and outreach plans to customers who had docu-
 6 mented their need for essential electricity for medical needs, which
 7 shall include but not be limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass
 8 respirators, hemodialysis machines, IV feeding machines, IV medical
 9 infusion machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators,
 10 respirator/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction machines, and
 11 tank type respirators. Such outreach plans shall include provisions
 12 regarding how such customers will be provided with alternative measures
 13 to ensure their health and well-being if power cannot adequately be
 14 provided. Such provisions shall include providing electric generators or
 15 lodging for the individual requiring such essential electricity for
 16 medical needs and shall also include transportation of medical devices,
 17 as needed. Such provisions shall also specify that any cost incurred by
 18 an electric company in providing such alternative measures shall not be
 19 borne by rate payers;
 20 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (cc) of section 1020-f of the public
 21 authorities law, as separately amended by chapter 395 of the laws of
 22 2022 and chapter 38 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04277-01-5

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 1 1. The service provider shall, in consultation with the authority,
 2 prepare and maintain an emergency response plan (i) to assure the
 3 reasonably prompt restoration of service in the case of an emergency
 4 event, defined for purposes of this subdivision as an event where wide-
 5 spread outages have occurred in the authority's service territory due to
 6 a storm or other causes beyond the control of the authority and the
 7 service provider, (ii) consistent with the requirements of paragraph (a)
 8 of subdivision twenty-one of section sixty-six of the public service law
 9 and any regulations and orders adopted thereto, and (iii) establishing
 10 the separate responsibilities of the authority and service provider.
 11 Such emergency response plan shall include plans setting forth how the
 12 communication and coordination of efforts between the authority, service
 13 provider, authority employees, service provider employees, authority
 14 company crews, service provider company crews, mutual aid crews, other
 15 utilities, local governments and any service provider or other entity
 16 performing services to assist the authority shall occur. Such emergency
 17 re