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

New York Senate Bill 1825 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1825

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        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

        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-m
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 409-m. 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.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03735-01-1