Healthy, Safe Schools

SD1844 An Act to Ensure the Health and Safety of the Commonwealth’s Students and Educators

This bill establishes new state ventilation requirements that current and future public school facilities must meet under both normal and pandemic conditions, mandates that school districts conduct assessments of school ventilation systems to ensure compliance, and creates a mechanism for state funding to support needed repairs and upgrades to school ventilation systems. It also requires the state to ensure the operation of weekly COVID-19 pooled surveillance testing programs in all public schools at no cost to school districts. It directs the state to ensure that all public school staff and students have access to PPE at no cost to school districts. Finally, it creates a special commission to study ventilation and air temperatures in public school facilities.