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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6222
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 4, 2023
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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
