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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7843

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Libraries and Education Technology

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation to requiring that
          libraries have policies prohibiting the banning of books in  order  to
          receive state aid

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

     1    Section 1. Section 273 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. No library or library system  shall  be  eligible  for  state  aid
     4  unless  such  library  or  library  system has included as part of their
     5  operating plan or has established policies incorporating  the  provision
     6  of  the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights that indi-
     7  cates that materials should not be  proscribed  or  removed  because  of
     8  partisan  or  doctrinal disapproval or has developed a written statement
     9  prohibiting the practice of banning books or other materials within  the
    10  library or library system and prohibits the practice of banning specific
    11  books or resources.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11295-01-3