Bill > A1641

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Board of Public Utilities (board) to adopt rules and regulations requiring an electric public utility (utility) to provide priority power restoration following an extended power outage to: 1) hospitals; 2) nursing homes; 3) assisted living facilities; 4) chronic or acute renal dialysis facilities; and 5) clinical or research laboratories or institutes that store human blood, other human tissue, or human DNA. Any priority power restoration efforts to the above facilities are not to divert efforts to restore power where needed to otherwise maintain overall public safety. The bill requires the board to allow a utility to exercise its discretion to prioritize power restoration to any of the above facilities after an extended power outage in accordance with the facilities' needs and with the characteristics of the geographic area in which power is to be restored.

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Daniel Benson (D)*,  Marlene Caride (D)*,  Angelica Jimenez (D)*,  Raj Mukherji (D)*,  Annette Quijano (D)*,  Gary Schaer (D)*,  Benjie Wimberly (D)*,  Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D),  Herbert Conaway (D),  Timothy Eustace (D),  Amy Handlin (R),  Gordon Johnson (D),  Jim Kennedy (D),  John McKeon (D),  Gabriela Mosquera (D),  Nancy Muñoz (R),  Eliana Pintor Marin (D), 

Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee (on 09/26/2016)