Bill Text: NY A07955 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enables public libraries to access employment preparation education (EPE) funds to provide adult literacy education; sets aside one million dollars to be awarded through a competitive grant process; provides that half of such appropriation shall be set aside for libraries serving a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - print number 7955a [A07955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07955-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7955--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Libraries and Education Technology -- 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  enabling  public
          libraries  to  access  employment preparation education (EPE) funds to
          provide adult literacy instruction

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  11  of  section 3602 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph a-2 to read as follows:
     3    a-2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a  of  this  subdivi-
     4  sion,  the commissioner shall set aside an amount of one million dollars
     5  to be awarded through a competitive grant process to public libraries to
     6  provide any of the services authorized in this subdivision. However,  no
     7  less  than  half  the annual appropriation shall be set aside for public
     8  libraries serving a population of one million or more. The  commissioner
     9  shall have the authority to establish rules and regulations to implement
    10  the provisions of this paragraph.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10509-03-4