H 30 PUBLIC SCHOOL VENTILATION IMPROVEMENT ACT

Rep Christine Chandler

Actions: HPREF [2] HEC/HHHC-HEC

Scheduled: Not Scheduled

 House Bill 30 (HB 30) enacts the Public School Ventilation Improvement Act that requires school districts and charter schools to improve mechanical ventilation systems in public schools.
 

 House Bill 30 (HB 30) enacts the Public School Ventilation Improvement Act that requires school districts and charter schools to improve mechanical ventilation systems in public schools.

SECTION 1. Enacts a new section of the Public School Code to be cited as the Public School Ventilation Improvement Act (Act).
 SECTION 2. Provides definitions as used in the Act.
SECTION 3. 
A. Requires that the Department shall conduct assessments and provide ventilation verification reports. All school districts to undertake a ventilation verification of all mechanical ventilation systems in the school district performed by a certified assessor or mechanical engineer.
B. The verification assessment report from the mechanical engineer shall include appropriate corrective actions needed for the mechanical ventilation system or the heating, ventilation and air conditioning infrastructure.
C. The department shall require all school districts to make the appropriate corrective actions identified in the assessment as specified in this subsection. Portable filtration and air cleaners shall be used only if the existing infrastructure cannot provide minimum filtration and ventilation requirements or, as recommended by a mechanical engineer, as a supplemental enhancement to the permanent  infrastructure.
D. School districts shall ensure that all work required by the assessment is performed using a skilled and trained construction workforce that is in compliance with the Construction Industries Licensing Act .
E. Upon completion of work, the school district shall submit a ventilation verification report to the department that shall include the information specified in this subsection.
F. The school district shall have a ventilation verification assessment performed on all mechanical ventilation systems in the school district at least every five years. The assessment and verification reports are public documents and shall be available to the public upon request.