Bill Text: NY A07843 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Ensures that staff in libraries are able to curate collections, services, and programming that reflect the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-22 - print number 7843b [A07843 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07843-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7843--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, SEAWRIGHT, EACHUS, SIMON -- read once and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on Libraries and Education Technology --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
          Libraries and Education Technology in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to requiring certain
          libraries to adopt policies ensuring that library staff  are  able  to
          curate  collections,  services,  and  programming that reflect diverse
          interests

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

     1    Section 1. Section 254 of the education law, as amended by chapter 718
     2  of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 254. Standards  of  library service. 1. The regents shall have power
     4  to fix standards of library service for every free  association,  public
     5  and  hospital  library  or,  with  the  advice of the appropriate tribal
     6  government and library board of trustees, Indian library which  receives
     7  any  portion  of  the  moneys  appropriated  by  the  state  to aid such
     8  libraries, or which is supported in whole or in part by  tax  levied  by
     9  any  municipality  or  district.  In the case of a hospital library or a
    10  library serving a hospital,  such  standards  shall  be  established  in
    11  consultation  with the commissioner of health. If any such library shall
    12  fail to comply with the regents requirements,  such  library  shall  not
    13  receive  any  portion  of the moneys appropriated by the state for free,
    14  hospital or Indian libraries nor shall any tax be levied by any  munici-
    15  pality or district for the support in whole or in part of such library.
    16    2.  Such  standards  shall require every free association, public, and
    17  hospital library or, with the advice of the appropriate  tribal  govern-
    18  ment  and  library board of trustees, Indian library, which receives any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  portion of the moneys appropriated by the state to aid  such  libraries,
     2  to  adopt  policies and procedures that ensure library staff are able to
     3  curate and develop collections, services, and programming  that  reflect
     4  the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.