STATE OF NEW YORK
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6807
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 8, 2023
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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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