Bill Text: NY A06745 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "school buildings carbon monoxide detectors act"; requires the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in elementary and secondary school buildings; authorizes the commissioner of education to annually prescribe a special cost allowance for such carbon monoxide detectors.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-12 - print number 6745a [A06745 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06745-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6745--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 1, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
          AUBRY, CAHILL, COOK, GRAF,  HOOPER,  MOYA,  PERRY,  RIVERA,  ROBINSON,
          RODRIGUEZ, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Educa-
          tion  --  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 enacting  the  "school
          buildings carbon monoxide detectors act"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
     2  the "school buildings carbon monoxide detectors act".
     3    § 2.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 411 to read
     4  as follows:
     5    §  411.  Installation  of  carbon monoxide detectors. The commissioner
     6  shall adopt regulations requiring the installation  of  operable  carbon
     7  monoxide  detectors  in  every  elementary and secondary school building
     8  within the state wherein the use of heating or other equipment  poses  a
     9  substantial  risk  of exposure to carbon monoxide.  Such carbon monoxide
    10  detectors shall meet the manufacture, design and installation  standards
    11  established  by  the New York state uniform fire prevention and building
    12  code council pursuant to section  three  hundred  seventy-eight  of  the
    13  executive law.
    14    §  3.  Paragraph a of subdivision 6-c of section 3602 of the education
    15  law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read  as
    16  follows:
    17    a.  Building aid for metal detectors, security cameras and other secu-
    18  rity devices, carbon monoxide detectors and  safety  devices  for  elec-
    19  trically  operated  partitions,  room dividers and doors. In addition to
    20  the apportionments payable to a school district pursuant to  subdivision
    21  six  of this section, the commissioner is hereby authorized to apportion
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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