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A02649 Summary:

BILL NOA02649 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSayegh

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COSPNSRCunningham, Shimsky, Beephan, DeStefano, Simon, Lemondes, Raga

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 25 Title 4-A §§2576 - 2579, Pub Health L; amd §3-0301, En Con L

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Relates to indoor air quality in schools.

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BILL NOA02649 

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01/21/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2649

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 21, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, CUNNINGHAM, SHIMSKY, BEEPHAN, DeSTEFANO,
 SIMON, LEMONDES, RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
 Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the environmental conservation
 law, in relation to indoor air quality in schools

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

 1 Section 1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 2 new title 4-A to read as follows:
 3 TITLE IV-A
 4 INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN SCHOOLS
 5 Section 2576. Definitions.
 6 2577. Indoor air quality inspection and evaluation program.
 7 2578. Best practices.
 8 2579. Rules and regulations.
 9 § 2576. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms shall
 10 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires other-
 11 wise:
 12 1. "Covered entity" means a facility used for (a) instruction of
 13 elementary or secondary students by: (i) any school district, including
 14 a special act school district and a city school district in a city
 15 having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or
 16 more, (ii) a board of cooperative educational services, (iii) a charter
 17 school, (iv) an approved private school for the education of students
 18 with disabilities, (v) a state-supported school for the deaf or blind
 19 operated pursuant to article eighty-five of the education law, and (vi)
 20 any other private or parochial elementary or secondary school; and (b)
 21 pre-kindergarten programs.
 22 2. "Hazardous substances" means any substance listed as a substance
 23 hazardous to the public health, safety or the environment in regulations
 24 promulgated pursuant to article thirty-seven of the environmental

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05461-01-5

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 1 conservation law and includes lead, radon, asbestos, formaldehyde, and
 2 volatile organic compounds exceeding a specified amount as designated by
 3 the commissioner.
 4 § 2577. Indoor air quality inspection and evaluation program. 1. With-
 5 in one year of the effective date of this title, the department shall
 6 establish an indoor air quality program.
 7 2. The indoor air quality program established pursuant to subdivision
 8 one of this section shall require the department to:
 9 (a) promulgate regulations for inspections, evaluations, notifications
 10 and best practices to improve indoor air quality in covered entities;
 11 (b) enter into any necessary interagency agreements to coordinate the
 12 indoor air quality program;
 13 (c) inspect a covered entity, upon their own initiative or upon
 14 complaint to the department regarding the quality of air in the covered
 15 entity, unless the issue or condition raised in such complaint has been
 16 the subject of a previous inspection by the department and is considered
 17 to be satisfactorily resolved or such issue or condition has already
 18 been made aware to the department and an inspection has already been
 19 scheduled or completed;
 20 (d) provide results of an inspection with the department of education,
 21 the superintendent, school administrator, or supervisor of the school in
 22 which the inspection was conducted, the appropriate local health author-
 23 ity, and any other person or department the department deems necessary;
 24 (e) assist the covered entity in developing a reasonable plan to
 25 improve air quality conditions found in the inspection; and
 26 (f) develop and implement p