Bill Text: NY A05266 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library at twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-07 - substituted by s3594 [A05266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05266-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5266

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to setting the number  of
          petitioners  necessary  to call for a vote on increasing the amount of
          funding of the annual contribution  for  the  operating  budget  of  a
          registered public or free association library

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 1  of  section
     2  259 of the education law, as amended by chapter 184 of the laws of 2007,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) Except as provided in subparagraph two of this paragraph, whenever
     5  twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality[, in a number equal to at
     6  least  ten  per centum of the total number of votes cast in such munici-
     7  pality for governor at the last gubernatorial election,] shall so  peti-
     8  tion  and  the  library board of trustees shall endorse, the question of
     9  establishing or increasing the amount of funding of the annual  contrib-
    10  ution  for  the  operating budget of a registered public or free associ-
    11  ation library by such municipality to a sum specified in said  petition,
    12  shall  be  voted  on  at the next general election of such municipality,
    13  provided that due public notice of the proposed action shall  have  been
    14  given.  An  increase  in library funding provided pursuant to this para-
    15  graph shall not apply to a municipal budget adopted prior to the date of
    16  such election.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05474-01-3