New York Senate Bill 3154

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-28 - PRINT NUMBER 3154A
Pending: Senate Libraries Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.

Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.

Sen. Jeremy Cooney [D]	Sen. Patricia Fahy [D]	Sen. Robert Jackson [D]	Sen. Monica Martinez [D]
Sen. Rachel May [D]	Sen. Julia Salazar [D]	Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton [D]	Sen. Lea Webb [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-28	Senate	PRINT NUMBER 3154A
2025-02-28	Senate	AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LIBRARIES
2025-01-23	Senate	REFERRED TO LIBRARIES

A05532 (Same As) 2025-02-14 - referred to libraries and education technology

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3154
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S03154&term=2025&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S03154
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S03154&term=2025&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S03154A