Bill Text: NY A07795 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enables public libraries to access employment preparation education (EPE) funds to provide adult literacy education; sets aside three million dollars to be awarded through a competitive grant process; provides that half of such appropriation shall be set aside for libraries serving a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-17 - reported referred to ways and means [A07795 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07795-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7795
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 27, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Libraries and Education Technology
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to enabling public
         libraries to access employment preparation education  (EPE)  funds  to
         provide adult literacy instruction
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 3602  of  the  education  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph a-2 to read as follows:
    3    A-2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVI-
    4  SION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  SET  ASIDE  AN  AMOUNT  OF  THREE  MILLION
    5  DOLLARS  TO  BE  AWARDED  THROUGH  A COMPETITIVE GRANT PROCESS TO PUBLIC
    6  LIBRARIES TO PROVIDE ANY OF THE SERVICES AUTHORIZED IN THIS SUBDIVISION.
    7  HOWEVER, NO LESS THAN HALF THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION SHALL BE  SET  ASIDE
    8  FOR  PUBLIC  LIBRARIES  SERVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. THE
    9  COMMISSIONER SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS
   10  TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
   11    S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
   12  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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