Bill Text: NJ A1030 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-20 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A1030 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A1030-Amended.html
ASSEMBLY, No. 1030
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman MILA M. JASEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Assemblyman DAVID W. WOLFE
District 10 (Ocean)
Assemblywoman ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT
District 31 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Education Committee on June 20, 2016, with amendments.
An Act concerning temperature control of public school buildings and supplementing chapter 33 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Each board of education shall adopt a policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities. The policy shall ensure, to the greatest extent feasible, that school buildings provide students with a temperature-controlled environment that is conducive to learning. The policy shall:
a. require, in each school building in the district, that 1[the principal designate]1 a staff member 1be designated1 to monitor compliance with the standards and initiate permitted corrective measures 1[when necessary]1;
b. establish a protocol to follow in instances where classroom temperatures are identified as being not conducive to learning; 1[and]1
c. identify what temperature control measures are permitted 1[, and which shall be]1 in accordance with local building and fire codes1;
d. be informed by the temperature standards outlined in N.J.A.C.12:100-13.3(a)4 of the Indoor Air Quality Standard established by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; and
e. require corrective measures be addressed, where feasible, by action outlined in N.J.A.C.12:100-13.3(a)1 of the Indoor Air Quality Standard established by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development1.
12. The Department of Education and the Department of Health shall jointly develop guidance to assist school districts in establishing and implementing a policy concerning temperature control.1
1[2.] 3.1 This act shall take effect on July 1 of the school year following enactment.