Bill Text: NY S06351 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD11353-05-8
