Bill Text: NY A09699 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires each school district to maintain a school library in each elementary and secondary school in the district and to employ a certified school library media specialist for each such school library.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-28 - reported referred to ways and means [A09699 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09699-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9699
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 16, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Libraries and Education Technology
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to maintaining school
         libraries
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 274-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 274-A. SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER  PROVISION  OF
    4  LAW  TO THE CONTRARY AND SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF
    5  THIS SECTION, EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL MAINTAIN A  SCHOOL  LIBRARY  IN
    6  EACH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT, AND SHALL EMPLOY A
    7  CERTIFIED  SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST FOR EACH SUCH SCHOOL LIBRARY,
    8  IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY  THE  COMMISSIONER,  WITHIN
    9  THREE YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
   10    2.  THE COMMISSIONER MAY, UPON APPLICATION BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT, WAIVE
   11  THE APPLICABILITY OF THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF  THIS  SECTION
   12  TO  SUCH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT UPON A DETERMINATION BY THE COMMISSIONER THAT
   13  THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS WITHIN A DESIGNATED  SHORTAGE  AREA  FOR  LIBRARY
   14  MEDIA  SPECIALISTS  OR  THAT SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT'S NEEDS ARE ADEQUATELY
   15  MET THROUGH A WRITTEN SHARING ARRANGEMENT WITH A PUBLIC LIBRARY AND SUCH
   16  ARRANGEMENT PROVIDES FOR ADEQUATE LIBRARY ACCESS.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
   18  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15173-01-4