Bill Text: NY S06351 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6351 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-13 - PRINT NUMBER 6351A [S06351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06351-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6351--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  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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