File #: T2026-0521    Version: * Name: Department of health and mental hygiene posting worker guidance for best practices for protecting workers from extreme weather.
Type: Introduction Status: Introduced
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/12/2026
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
Council Member Sponsors: 1
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
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

 

By Council Member De La Rosa

 

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. APM

LS #17720

Int. #1376-2025

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