Bill Text: NY S02018 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires distribution of information on obtaining library card and application to all students.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-6)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-31 - SIGNED CHAP.247 [S02018 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02018-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2018
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
         districts  to  distribute  to students in each school building written
         information about the public library and how to obtain a library card
         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 816 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  816.  DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD APPLICATION MATERIALS. 1.
    4  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL
    5  BE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
    6    A. "SCHOOL DISTRICT" SHALL MEAN ANY  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IN  THE
    7  STATE OF NEW YORK THAT CONTAINS ONE OR MORE SCHOOLS WITH ANY COMBINATION
    8  OF  GRADES FROM AND INCLUDING KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWELVE WHICH IS
    9  LOCATED OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY.
   10    B. "PUBLIC LIBRARY" SHALL MEAN ANY PUBLIC OR  ASSOCIATION  LIBRARY  AS
   11  DEFINED IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE OF THIS TITLE WHICH IS LOCATED
   12  OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY.
   13    2. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE REQUIRED TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATIONAL
   14  MATERIALS  ABOUT  THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND APPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
   15  CARDS TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS FOLLOWS:
   16    A. ANNUALLY TO EVERY STUDENT OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT UPON HIS  OR  HER
   17  ENTRY INTO KINDERGARTEN, GRADE SIX AND GRADE NINE;
   18    B. TO EVERY STUDENT UPON HIS OR HER ENROLLMENT AS A NEW STUDENT; AND
   19    C.  AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY IN EACH SCHOOL WITHIN
   20  THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS WHO  WISH  TO  OBTAIN  SUCH
   21  MATERIALS.
   22    3.  EACH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT SHALL CONSULT ANNUALLY WITH THE DIRECTOR OF
   23  EACH PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCATED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00118-01-3
       S. 2018                             2
    1  IN ORDER TO REQUEST COPIES OF MATERIALS CONTAINING INFORMATION REGARDING
    2  THE LIBRARY, INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW STUDENTS MAY OBTAIN A LIBRARY CARD  AND
    3  AN APPLICATION FOR A LIBRARY CARD.
    4    4.  EACH  PUBLIC  LIBRARY THAT IS LOCATED IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL
    5  PROVIDE SUFFICIENT COPIES OF SUCH MATERIALS TO THE SCHOOL  DISTRICT  FOR
    6  DISTRIBUTION  AS  DESCRIBED  IN  SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION SO THAT
    7  EACH SCHOOL MAY SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
    8    5. IN THE EVENT THERE IS NO PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCATED WITHIN THE  BOUNDA-
    9  RIES OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT, SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO
   10  COMPLY WITH THIS SECTION.
   11    6.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH RULES AND
   12  REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   13    7. NOTHING IN THIS ACT SHALL REQUIRE A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO EXPEND ADDI-
   14  TIONAL FUNDS IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   15    S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
   16  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.