Bill Text: NY A05332 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to state aid to libraries and library systems.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-20 - enacting clause stricken [A05332 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05332-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5332--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 22, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. KELLNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Libraries and Education  Technology  --  committee  discharged,
         bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
         committee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to maintenance of  effort
         for state aid to public library systems
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph j of subdivision 1  of  section
    2  272  of  the education law, as amended by section 2 of part O of chapter
    3  57 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (3) The commissioner may waive the requirements of  subparagraphs  one
    5  and  two  of  this  paragraph,  if  the commissioner determines that the
    6  application of such subparagraphs would result in excessive hardship for
    7  the public library  system  or  central  library  brought  about  by  an
    8  extraordinary  change in a local sponsor's economic condition, loss by a
    9  local sponsor of state aid to local governments provided  under  section
   10  fifty-four  of  the  state  finance law, or by a natural disaster. [Such
   11  waiver may be granted only one time to each  public  library  system  or
   12  central  library  within five calendar years. The commissioner may grant
   13  such waiver for a period of up to two consecutive calendar  years.]  THE
   14  COMMISSIONER  SHALL DETERMINE THE TIME PERIOD FOR WHICH SUCH WAIVER WILL
   15  BE GRANTED. The commissioner shall report any waivers granted under this
   16  subparagraph to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president  of
   17  the  senate,  the  chairs  of  the legislative fiscal committees and the
   18  director of the division of the budget.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06735-03-3