Bill Text: NY S02857 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to maintenance of effort for state aid to public library systems.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-4)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - SIGNED CHAP.287 [S02857 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02857-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2857--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 24, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to maintenance of effort
         for state aid to public library systems
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 3 of paragraph j of subdivision 1 of section
    2  272 of the education law, as amended by section 2 of part O  of  chapter
    3  57 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (3)  The  commissioner may waive the requirements of subparagraphs one
    5  and two of this paragraph,  if  the  commissioner  determines  that  the
    6  application of such subparagraphs would result in excessive hardship for
    7  the  public  library  system  or  central  library  brought  about by an
    8  extraordinary change in a local sponsor's economic condition, loss by  a
    9  local  sponsor  of state aid to local governments provided under section
   10  fifty-four of the state finance law, or by  a  natural  disaster.  [Such
   11  waiver  may  be  granted  only one time to each public library system or
   12  central library within five calendar years. The commissioner  may  grant
   13  such  waiver  for a period of up to two consecutive calendar years.] THE
   14  COMMISSIONER SHALL DETERMINE THE TIME PERIOD FOR WHICH SUCH WAIVER  WILL
   15  BE GRANTED. The commissioner shall report any waivers granted under this
   16  subparagraph  to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of
   17  the senate, the chairs of the  legislative  fiscal  committees  and  the
   18  director of the division of the budget.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06735-02-3