HB 936

Abstract

Public school buildings; indoor air qualitystandards. Establishes several enumerated requirements for schoolboards to ensure indoor air quality in each public school buildingin the local school division, including (i) identifying a designatedindividual to oversee the establishment of and adherence to a preventivemaintenance schedule for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning(HVAC) system in each such building and the implementation of theuse of general or local exhaust ventilation in areas of each suchbuilding where housekeeping and maintenance activities involve the use of equipment or products that could reasonably be expected toresult in hazardous chemical or particulate exposures, among otherthings; (ii) controlling microbial and fungal contamination in eachsuch building by promptly repairing water intrusion that can promotemicrobial or fungal growth; (iii) ensuring indoor air quality duringrenovation and remodeling or new construction in various ways; and(iv) keeping school building system maintenance records. The billalso requires the Department of Education to establish and administera school board employee complaint and resolution process relatingto indoor air quality in public school buildings.