Senate Bill S775

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to policies regarding maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S775 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A752
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§409-n & 2801-a, Ed L (as proposed in S.3397-A & A.9011-A)

2025-S775 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-S775 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S775 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    775
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (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:
 
   Section 1. Section 409-n of the education law, as added by  a  chapter
 of  the laws of 2024 amending the education law relating to establishing
 a maximum temperature in school  buildings  and  indoor  facilities,  as
 proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  3397-A  and A. 9011-A, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 409-n. Maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities.  All
 common, union free, central, central high schools, city school districts
 and  boards  of  cooperative educational services shall develop a policy
 for ensuring the health and  safety  of  students,  faculty,  and  other
 employees,  on  extreme  heat  condition  days.  For the purpose of this
 section, extreme heat condition days shall be defined as days  when  the
 occupiable  educational  and  support  services  spaces  are found to be
 eighty-two degrees or  greater  Fahrenheit.  For  the  purpose  of  this
 section, support services spaces shall not include kitchen areas used in
 the preparation of food for consumption by students.  For the purpose of
 this  section,  room temperature shall be measured at a shaded location,
 three feet above the floor near the center of the room. Schools shall be
 required to take action to  relieve  heat-related  discomfort  when  the
 occupied space temperature reaches eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit.  These
 actions  may  include,  but are not limited to, turning off the overhead
 lights, pulling down shades or blinds, turning on fans,  opening  class-
 room doors and windows to increase circulation, turning off unused elec-
 tronics  that  produce  heat, and providing water breaks.  [Educational]
 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.

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