Under current law, a school board is required to provide safe and healthful
facilities. This bill creates various provisions relating to indoor environmental
quality in public schools. The bill includes all of the following requirements:

1. The state superintendent of public instruction must establish a special
committee to be called the "Indoor Environmental Quality in Schools Task Force" to
do all of the following:

a. Advise the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in the development of a
model management plan to improve indoor environmental quality in schools and
school indoor environmental quality best management practices.

b. Recommend training requirements for school maintenance employees.

c. Recommend educational materials regarding indoor environmental quality
in schools and develop guidelines for making that information available to pupils,
parents and guardians, and school district employees.

d. Upon completing its duties, report its findings and recommendations to the
governor and the legislature and then cease to exist on the date on which DPI issues
its model management plan and best practices (see item 2.), unless the state
superintendent determines that the operations of DPI require the task force to
continue in existence after that date.

2. DPI must establish the model management plan and best management
practices by the first day of the 12th month beginning after the month in which the
task force submits its report.

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3. By the first day of the 12th month beginning after the month in which DPI
issues its model management plan, each school board must adopt a management
plan to monitor and improve indoor environmental quality in district schools.
Among other specified items, the school board's plan must designate an employee as
the district's indoor environmental quality coordinator, establish an indoor
environmental quality committee, include a policy on and procedures for handling
complaints about indoor environmental quality, include a plan for complying with
the most recent version of national air quality standards, include a plan for
addressing air quality issues noted during an annual evaluation, include a plan for
remediating known indoor environmental quality issues, and provide for an annual
review of the management plan. The school board must also distribute its plan
annually to pupils and to their parents or guardians.

4. A school board that becomes aware of any information concerning the indoor
environmental quality of a school, including test results, must make that
information available to all pupils assigned to the school, the parents or guardians
of those pupils, and all employees assigned to the school.

5. A school board must include in a contract for the preparation of plans and
specifications for the construction of a new school, for a structural addition to an
existing school, or for an alteration to an existing school that will cause a material
change to the mechanical systems and equipment of that school a provision to ensure
that the design of the new school, addition, or alteration facilitates good indoor
environmental quality for all occupants of the spaces affected by the design in
accordance with its management plan and facilitates operation and maintenance of
the spaces, systems, and equipment affected by the design in a manner that promotes
good indoor environmental quality in accordance with its management plan.

6. A school board, before approving a contract for the construction of a new
school, for a structural addition to an existing school, or for an alteration to an
existing school that will cause a material change to the mechanical systems and
equipment of that school, must determine that the plan and schedule for the
construction, addition, or alteration consider and address concerns about indoor
environmental quality during the construction process; the transfer from the
designers and builders to school maintenance employees of information necessary
for the proper operation and maintenance of the new school, addition, or alteration
and its systems and equipment so as to promote good indoor environmental quality;
and the implementation of proper commissioning procedures, including testing of
any new systems or equipment, before occupancy of the spaces affected by the
project.