File #: Int 1376-2025    Version: * Name: Department of health and mental hygiene posting worker guidance for best practices for protecting workers from extreme weather.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 9/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the department of health and mental hygiene posting worker guidance for best practices for protecting workers from extreme weather
Sponsors: Carmen N. De La Rosa, Tiffany Cabán
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DOHMH”) to post on the department’s website information on best practices for protecting workers from extreme weather, such as extreme heat, extreme cold, and low air quality. Such guidance would be posted in English and each of the designated citywide languages.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1376, 2. Int. No. 1376, 3. September 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1376

 

By Council Members De La Rosa and Cabán

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the department of health and mental hygiene posting worker guidance for best practices for protecting workers from extreme weather

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add new section 17-199.29, to read as follows:

§ 17-199.29 Information on protecting outdoor workers from extreme weather. The department shall make available information on best practices for protecting outdoor workers from extreme weather, including extreme heat, extreme cold, and low air quality, on the department’s website, in English and in each of the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101. In fulfilling the requirement of this section, the department may direct users to guidance published by the state department of health or the occupational safety and health administration.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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