Bill Text: NY A05390 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to aid for coordinated collection development grants for public and non-profit independent colleges and universities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-07-11 - enacting clause stricken [A05390 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05390-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5390 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 18, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BING, GUNTHER, PAULIN, MILLMAN, ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, GALEF, LINARES, N. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DESTITO, GABRYSZAK, GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO, MAYERSOHN, McENENY, PHEFFER, SWEENEY, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to aid for coordinated collection development grants for public and non-profit independent colleges and universities THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The formula directing state aid to 2 public and private academic and research libraries has not been adjusted 3 since 1984. During that time prices of published academic materials have 4 outpaced inflation, often rising at a rate of more than three times that 5 of inflation. The state provides aid to these libraries for the purpose 6 of improving access and resources in a coordinated manner. This program 7 needs an adjustment in its formula if the goals of quality and accessi- 8 ble scholarship are to be maintained. Therefore, it is in the best 9 interests of the state, its citizens and long-term academic and economic 10 prospects to support modernization of the coordinated collection devel- 11 opment aid (CCDA) formula. 12 S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 273 of the education law, as amended by 13 section 3 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2005, is amended to 14 read as follows: 15 5. Coordinated collection development program for public and nonprofit 16 independent colleges and universities. 17 a. Libraries of public and nonprofit independent colleges and univer- 18 sities are entitled to receive annual funding for a coordinated 19 collection development grant if they meet the following conditions: 20 (1) Membership in a reference and research library resources system, EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08993-01-1 A. 5390 2 1 (2) Their resources are made available to the public, through full 2 participation in the interlibrary loan and other resource sharing 3 programs of the reference and research library resources system of which 4 they are members, and 5 (3) They meet the requirements set forth in regulations adopted by the 6 commissioner including but not confined to 7 (a) maintenance of effort, 8 (b) relationships between reference and research library resources 9 systems' programs and the regional higher education master plan, 10 (c) submission of interlibrary loan statistics, and such other reports 11 as may be required by the commissioner. 12 b. Public and nonprofit independent colleges and universities with 13 libraries which meet the criteria of paragraph a of this subdivision are 14 eligible for annual grants as follows: 15 (1) [Four thousand four hundred dollars for each institution] FIVE 16 THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO 17 THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVEN- 18 TY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND 19 TWELVE--TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN, EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR 20 EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN--TWO THOUSAND 21 FOURTEEN, TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO 22 THOUSAND FOURTEEN--TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, and 23 (2) One dollar and four cents for each full-time equivalent student 24 enrolled in each qualifying institution, in the academic year completed 25 prior to [the] state fiscal year TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND 26 TWELVE. THEREAFTER THE RATE SHALL BE SET AT THE LEVEL OF THE PREVIOUS 27 FISCAL YEAR INDEXED TO ANY POSITIVE GROWTH IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 28 AS SET BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. For purposes of 29 this section, a full-time equivalent shall be calculated as follows: 30 (i) one full-time undergraduate student shall be considered one full- 31 time equivalent student; 32 (ii) one part-time undergraduate student shall be considered one-third 33 of a full-time equivalent student; 34 (iii) one part-time graduate student shall be considered one full-time 35 equivalent student; and 36 (iv) one full-time graduate student shall be considered one and one- 37 half of a full-time equivalent student. 38 c. Funds for the support of this program shall be appropriated to the 39 department, except that funds for the state-operated institutions of the 40 state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city univer- 41 sity of New York, shall be appropriated to the state university of New 42 York out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the 43 credit of the state purposes fund not otherwise appropriated, and funds 44 shall be appropriated to the city university of New York out of any 45 moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the 46 local assistance fund not otherwise appropriated, and shall be subject 47 to the same distribution formula as provided in paragraph b of this 48 subdivision. 49 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.