Bill Text: NY S01825 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities; provides a definition of extreme heat condition days and the standard to measure room temperature.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-03 - PRINT NUMBER 1825A [S01825 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01825-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1825--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  ADDABBO,  BIAGGI,  GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES,
          LANZA, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to
          be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Education -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule  6,  sec.  8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a maximum
          temperature in 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-n
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  409-n. Maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities. All
     4  common, union free, central, central high schools, city school districts
     5  and boards of cooperative educational services shall  develop  a  policy
     6  for  ensuring  the  health  and  safety  of  students, faculty and other
     7  employees, including, but not limited to, kitchen and cafeteria workers,
     8  on extreme heat condition days. For the purpose of this section, extreme
     9  heat condition days shall be defined as days when the occupiable  educa-
    10  tional and support services spaces are found to be eighty-two degrees or
    11  greater  Fahrenheit.  For  the purpose of this section, support services
    12  spaces shall include, but not be limited to, kitchen areas used  in  the
    13  preparation  of  food  for consumption by students.   For the purpose of
    14  this section, room temperature shall be measured at a  shaded  location,
    15  three feet above the floor near the center of the room. Schools shall be
    16  required  to  take  action  to  relieve heat related discomfort when the
    17  occupied space temperature reaches eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit. Educa-
    18  tional and support services spaces cannot be occupied  if  room  temper-
    19  ature reaches eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03735-06-2
        S. 1825--A                          2

     1    §  2.  Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of the education
     2  law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter  54  of  the  laws  of
     3  2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  policies  and  procedures  for  response  to  emergency situations
     5  including extreme heat conditions, such as those  requiring  evacuation,
     6  sheltering,  and  lock-down. These policies shall include, at a minimum,
     7  evacuation routes, shelter sites, and procedures for addressing  medical
     8  needs,  transportation and emergency notification of parents and guardi-
     9  ans;
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.