Bill Text: NY A11355 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires school buildings and indoor facilities maintain a temperature of at least sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and no greater than eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-09-19 - referred to education [A11355 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11355-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11355 IN ASSEMBLY September 19, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pellegrino) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a required temperature range for school buildings and indoor facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 409-m 2 to read as follows: 3 § 409-m. Temperatures in school buildings and facilities. 1. All 4 common, union free, charter, parochial, central, central high schools, 5 city school districts and boards of cooperative educational services 6 shall maintain a room temperature in all occupiable educational spaces 7 of no less than sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and no greater than eight- 8 y-eight degrees Fahrenheit. 9 2. In the event an occupiable educational space has a temperature 10 which does not meet the requirements of subdivision one of this section, 11 such space shall not be occupied by any students or staff until the 12 temperature meets the requirements of subdivision one of this section. 13 3. For the purpose of this section, room temperature shall be measured 14 at a shaded location, three feet above the floor near the center of the 15 room. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or 18 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 19 this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made on 20 or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16541-02-8