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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7955--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. SKOUFIS, ARROYO, GOTTFRIED, DAVILA, ERRIGO,
TAYLOR, AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. M. L. MILLER -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the
Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
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-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 and faculty on extreme
7 heat condition days. For the purpose of this section, extreme heat
8 condition days shall be defined as days when the occupiable educational
9 and support services spaces are found to be eighty-two degrees or great-
10 er Fahrenheit. For the purpose of this section, room temperature shall
11 be measured at a shaded location, three feet above the floor near the
12 center of the room. Schools shall be required to take action to relieve
13 heat related discomfort when the occupied space temperature reaches
14 eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit. Educational and support services spaces
15 cannot be occupied if room temperature reaches eighty-eight degrees
16 Fahrenheit.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
18 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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