Bill Text: NY A08870 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits libraries and library systems, including school libraries and school library systems from banning books or other materials based on partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-25 - referred to libraries and education technology [A08870 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08870-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8870

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Libraries and Education Technology

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting  libraries
          and  library  systems  from  banning books or other materials based on
          partisan or doctrinal disapproval

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 286 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  286.  Prohibition  on  book  banning. No library, or library system
     4  established or operating under this article, including school  libraries
     5  and school library systems, shall proscribe, ban, or remove any books or
     6  other materials because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13349-01-3