Bill Text: NY A06807 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes digital materials within school library materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.571 [A06807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06807-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6807

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to digital materials

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  711 of the education law, as
     2  amended by section 2 of part A-1 of chapter 58 of the laws of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  School  library  materials, for the purposes of this article shall
     5  mean [both] digital materials, audio/visual materials and printed  mate-
     6  rials  that  may  or may not require magnification which meet all of the
     7  following criteria: (1) materials which are catalogued and processed  as
     8  part  of the school library or media center for use by elementary and/or
     9  secondary school children and teachers; (2) materials which with reason-
    10  able care and use may be expected to last more than one  year;  and  (3)
    11  materials which would not be eligible for aid pursuant to sections seven
    12  hundred  one  and  seven hundred fifty-one of this title. School library
    13  materials meeting these criteria  may  include  (i)  hard  cover  [and],
    14  paperback  books  and  e-books,  periodicals, that is, print and digital
    15  publications which are subscription-based and appear at  regular  inter-
    16  vals of less than one year on a continuing basis for an indefinite peri-
    17  od,  documents  other  than  books,  pamphlets,  musical  scores,  other
    18  printed, digital and published materials, [and]  (ii)  for  school  year
    19  nineteen  hundred  eighty-six--eighty-seven and thereafter, audio/visual
    20  materials including films, film strips,  micro-film,  sound  recordings,
    21  processed slides, transparencies, kinescopes, video tapes, maps, charts,
    22  globes,  pictorial  works,  including pictures and picture sets, reprod-
    23  uctions, photographs, graphic works, and any other audio/visual  materi-
    24  als of a similar nature made.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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