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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7843--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Libraries  and  Education Technology -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to requiring certain
          libraries to adopt policies preventing the banning of certain  library
          materials, services, or programming

          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
    19  portion  of  the moneys appropriated by the state to aid such libraries,
    20  to  adopt  policies  and  procedures  that  ensure  library   materials,
    21  services,  and programming shall not be proscribed or removed because of
    22  partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11295-02-3