AB 757

This bill requires the warden or superintendent of a state correctional

institution or the county sheriff or person in charge of a county jail or house of

correction to ensure that the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning in the state

correctional institution or county jail or house of correction are in working order and

to ensure that the temperature in each housing unit is not less than 68 degrees

Fahrenheit and not more than 76 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. The bill also

requires the warden or superintendent of a state correctional institution or the

county sheriff or person in charge of a county jail or house of correction to record the

temperatures in all housing facility common areas and two random cells located in

substantially different areas of each housing unit on any day that the outdoor

temperature is below 10 degrees Fahrenheit or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit and

requires the Department of Corrections to report that temperature data to the

legislature on an annual basis.

The bill applies the temperature requirements in the bill to one-third of state

correctional institutions on May 1, 2027; another one-third on May 1, 2029, and the

final one-third of state correctional institutions and the county jails on May 1, 2033

and directs DOC to determine the order in which to install heating, ventilation, or

air conditioning systems in the state correctional institutions to meet those

deadlines and report that information to the legislature. This bill provides $200,000

to DOC in the 2023-24 fiscal year to complete the required report and $65,000,000

in the 2024-25 fiscal year to install and operate heating, ventilation, and air

conditioning in state correctional institutions as required under the bill.