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A00447 Summary:

BILL NOA00447
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03397
 
SPONSORJoyner
 
COSPNSRDinowitz, Shimsky, Alvarez, Eachus, Taylor, Walker, Cunningham, Jacobson, Gunther, Conrad, Lunsford, Wallace, Seawright, Otis, Paulin, Levenberg, Shrestha, Zebrowski, Jensen, Slater, Brabenec, Smith, Barrett, Morinello
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §409-n, amd §2801-a, Ed L
 
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.
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A00447 Actions:

BILL NOA00447
 
01/09/2023referred to education
01/03/2024referred to education
01/10/2024enacting clause stricken
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A00447 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A447
 
SPONSOR: Joyner
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:: This bill requires that all school facilities establish a maximum temperature to ensure the health and safety of students, faculty and staff.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:: Section 1: Creates maximum temperatures in school building and facili- ties. For the purpose of this section, room temperature shall be meas- ured at a shaded location, three feet above the floor near the center of the room.   JUSTIFICATION:: While the state imposes a minimum classroom temperature, there are currently no statutory limits on maximum temperatures in school build- ings and indoor facilities throughout New York State to ensure that excessive temperatures do not create health and safety risks to students, faculty members and school employees.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:: None.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
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A00447 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           447
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred 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-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.
    20    § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of  the  education
    21  law,  as  amended  by  section  1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
    22  2016, is amended to read as follows:
    23    a. policies  and  procedures  for  response  to  emergency  situations
    24  including  extreme  heat conditions, such as those requiring evacuation,
    25  sheltering, and lock-down. These policies shall include, at  a  minimum,
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02813-01-3

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     1  evacuation  routes, shelter sites, and procedures for addressing medical
     2  needs, transportation and emergency notification of parents and  guardi-
     3  ans;
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     5  it shall have become a law.
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