Bill Text: NY S03021 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-14 - referred to libraries and education technology [S03021 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S03021-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3021 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 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 § 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. LBD03912-01-7
