New York S 775: Relates to policies regarding maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities

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S00775 Summary:

BILL NOS00775 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00752

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§409-n & 2801-a, Ed L (as proposed in S.3397-A & A.9011-A)

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Requires policies regarding maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities to include a plan to remove students and staff from occupied spaces where practicable when educational and support services spaces reach eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.

Go to top S00775 Actions:

BILL NOS00775 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/13/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.49

02/04/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A752

&nbspA00752 AMEND= Eachus

&nbsp01/08/2025referred to education

&nbsp01/21/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp01/22/2025reported 

&nbsp01/22/2025rules report cal.44

&nbsp01/22/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.44

&nbsp01/28/2025passed assembly

&nbsp01/28/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp01/28/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp02/04/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S775

&nbsp02/04/20253RD READING CAL.49

&nbsp02/04/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp02/04/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/12/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp02/14/2025signed chap.25

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 775

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to policies regarding
 maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 409-n of the education law, as added by a chapter
 2 of the laws of 2024 amending the education law relating to establishing
 3 a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities, as
 4 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3397-A and A. 9011-A, is
 5 amended to read as follows:
 6 § 409-n. Maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities. All
 7 common, union free, central, central high schools, city school districts
 8 and boards of cooperative educational services shall develop a policy
 9 for ensuring the health and safety of students, faculty, and other
 10 employees, on extreme heat condition days. For the purpose of this
 11 section, extreme heat condition days shall be defined as days when the
 12 occupiable educational and support services spaces are found to be
 13 eighty-two degrees or greater Fahrenheit. For the purpose of this
 14 section, support services spaces shall not include kitchen areas used in
 15 the preparation of food for consumption by students. For the purpose of
 16 this section, room temperature shall be measured at a shaded location,
 17 three feet above the floor near the center of the room. Schools shall be
 18 required to take action to relieve heat-related discomfort when the
 19 occupied space temperature reaches eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit. These
 20 actions may include, but are not limited to, turning off the overhead
 21 lights, pulling down shades or blinds, turning on fans, opening class-
 22 room doors and windows to increase circulation, turning off unused elec-
 23 tronics that produce heat, and providing water breaks. [Educational]
 24 Such policy shall include a plan to remove students and staff from occu-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02930-01-5

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 1 pied spaces where practicable when educational and support services
 2 spaces [cannot be occupied if room temperature reaches] reach eighty-
 3 eight degrees Fahrenheit.
 4 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of the education
 5 law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the education
 6 law relating to establishing a maximum temperature in school buildings
 7 and indoor facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 8 3397-A and A. 9011-A, is amended to read as follows:
 9 a. policies and procedures for response to emergency situations
 10 [in