Bill Text: NY A06873 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A06873 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06873-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6873

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the  "freedom
          to read act"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "freedom to
     2  read act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 13 of the education  law  is  designated
     4  the  closing  paragraph,  and  a  new  subdivision 5 is added to read as
     5  follows:
     6    5. Policies to ensure that school libraries and librarians are able to
     7  provide students with access to  the  widest  array  of  age-appropriate
     8  materials available to such school district.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07840-04-3