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Assembly Bill A11355

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a required temperature range for school buildings and indoor facilities

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2017-A11355 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-m, Ed L

2017-A11355 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school buildings and indoor facilities maintain a temperature of at least sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and no greater than eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.

2017-A11355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11355
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 19, 2018
                                ___________
 
 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:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  409-m
 to read as follows:
   §  409-M.  TEMPERATURES  IN  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS  AND FACILITIES. 1. ALL
 COMMON, UNION FREE, CHARTER, PAROCHIAL, CENTRAL, CENTRAL  HIGH  SCHOOLS,
 CITY  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  AND  BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
 SHALL MAINTAIN A ROOM TEMPERATURE IN ALL OCCUPIABLE  EDUCATIONAL  SPACES
 OF NO LESS THAN SIXTY-FIVE DEGREES FAHRENHEIT AND NO GREATER THAN EIGHT-
 Y-EIGHT DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
   2.  IN  THE  EVENT  AN  OCCUPIABLE EDUCATIONAL SPACE HAS A TEMPERATURE
 WHICH DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
 SUCH SPACE SHALL NOT BE OCCUPIED BY ANY  STUDENTS  OR  STAFF  UNTIL  THE
 TEMPERATURE MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   3. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION, ROOM TEMPERATURE SHALL BE MEASURED
 AT  A SHADED LOCATION, THREE FEET ABOVE THE FLOOR NEAR THE CENTER OF THE
 ROOM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made on
 or before such date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16541-02-8

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