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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="7-213.1" title_number="7" title_name="Gas, Electric, and Water Companies" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Electric Generation Facility Planning">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “special medical needs facility” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an assisted living facility as defined in § 19–1801 of the Health – General Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a congregate housing services program under Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the Human Services Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a hospice facility as defined in § 19–901 of the Health – General Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a hospital as defined in § 19–301 of the Health – General Article or a similar institution;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a nursing home as defined in § 19–1401 of the Health – General Article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>any other type of facility that the Commission designates in regulation as a special medical needs facility.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of this section is to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>further the service quality and reliability goals under § 7–213 of this subtitle as they relate to special medical needs facilities; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>encourage the reliable delivery of service to special medical needs facilities.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Secretary of Health shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on or before January 1 of each year, establish and provide a list of special medical needs facilities, including the licensed capacity of each facility, to each electric company for its service territory;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>post the list required under item (1) of this subsection on the website of the Maryland Department of Health; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>establish a procedure to allow a special medical needs facility to remove its information from the list established under item (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>On or before April 1 of each year, an electric company shall submit to the Commission as part of the electric company’s annual performance report under § 7–213(g) of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>a list of special medical needs facilities that are served by protective devices that activated five or more times during the reporting period, resulting in a power outage;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>a list of special medical needs facilities that experienced a service interruption that:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>exceeded 4 consecutive hours during the reporting period; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>was reported to or was otherwise known to the electric company;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>a list of special medical needs facilities that are served by the 3% of feeders assigned to an electric company’s service territory in the State that are identified by the electric company as having the poorest reliability during the reporting period; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>a description of the electric company’s performance in assessing and acting to remediate, and future plans and proposals to improve, the reliability of feeders and protective devices identified under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>This section does not prohibit the Commission from taking the corrective action authorized in § 7–213(f)(2) of this subtitle against an electric company that fails to meet any or all of the applicable standards.</text>
  </level>
</section>
