Requires school buildings and indoor facilities maintain a temperature of at least sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and no greater than eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
September 19, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pellegrino)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a
required temperature range for 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. Temperatures in school buildings and facilities. 1. All
4 common, union free, charter, parochial, central, central high schools,
5 city school districts and boards of cooperative educational services
6 shall maintain a room temperature in all occupiable educational spaces
7 of no less than sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and no greater than eight-
8 y-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
9 2. In the event an occupiable educational space has a temperature
10 which does not meet the requirements of subdivision one of this section,
11 such space shall not be occupied by any students or staff until the
12 temperature meets the requirements of subdivision one of this section.
13 3. For the purpose of this section, room temperature shall be measured
14 at a shaded location, three feet above the floor near the center of the
15 room.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
18 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
19 this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made on
20 or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16541-02-8
