Bill Text: NY S06222 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring lodging facilities to set air conditioner default settings to certain temperatures; requires such facilities to not set the default temperature settings lower than 75 degrees Fahrenheit between the months of May through October and higher than 64 degrees Fahrenheit between the months of November through April.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S06222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06222-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6222

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring lodg-
          ing facilities to set air  conditioner  default  settings  to  certain
          temperatures

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  206-g to read as follows:
     3    § 206-g. Air conditioner default settings. 1.  For  purposes  of  this
     4  section,  "lodging  facility"  shall  mean  any inn, hotel, motel, motor
     5  court or other establishment that provides lodging to transient  guests.
     6  Such  term shall not include an establishment treated as a dwelling unit
     7  for the purposes of any state or local law or regulation  or  an  estab-
     8  lishment  located within a building that has five or less rooms for rent
     9  or hire and that is actually occupied as a residence by  the  proprietor
    10  of such establishment.
    11    2.  A  keeper  of a lodging facility shall not set the default temper-
    12  ature setting on any air conditioner located in any room or common  area
    13  (a) lower than seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit between the months of May
    14  through  October  and  (b)  higher  than  sixty-four  degrees Fahrenheit
    15  between the months of November through April.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02094-01-3