Bill Text: NY S03688 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to aid for coordinated collection development grants for public and non-profit independent colleges and universities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03688 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03688-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3688
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 11, 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  aid  for  coordinated
         collection  development  grants  for public and non-profit independent
         colleges and universities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings. The formula directing state aid to
    2  public and private academic and research libraries has not been adjusted
    3  since 1984. During that time prices of published academic materials have
    4  outpaced inflation, often rising at a rate of more than three times that
    5  of inflation. The state provides aid to these libraries for the  purpose
    6  of  improving access and resources in a coordinated manner. This program
    7  needs an adjustment in its formula if the goals of quality and  accessi-
    8  ble  scholarship  are  to  be  maintained.  Therefore, it is in the best
    9  interests of the state, its citizens and long-term academic and economic
   10  prospects to support modernization of the coordinated collection  devel-
   11  opment aid (CCDA) formula.
   12    S  2. Subdivision 5 of section 273 of the education law, as amended by
   13  section 3 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of  2005,  is  amended  to
   14  read as follows:
   15    5. Coordinated collection development program for public and nonprofit
   16  independent colleges and universities.
   17    a.  Libraries of public and nonprofit independent colleges and univer-
   18  sities  are  entitled  to  receive  annual  funding  for  a  coordinated
   19  collection development grant if they meet the following conditions:
   20    (1) Membership in a reference and research library resources system,
   21    (2)  Their  resources  are  made available to the public, through full
   22  participation in  the  interlibrary  loan  and  other  resource  sharing
   23  programs of the reference and research library resources system of which
   24  they are members, and
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    (3) They meet the requirements set forth in regulations adopted by the
    2  commissioner including but not confined to
    3    (a) maintenance of effort,
    4    (b)  relationships  between  reference  and research library resources
    5  systems' programs and the regional higher education master plan,
    6    (c) submission of interlibrary loan statistics, and such other reports
    7  as may be required by the commissioner.
    8    b. Public and nonprofit independent  colleges  and  universities  with
    9  libraries which meet the criteria of paragraph a of this subdivision are
   10  eligible for annual grants as follows:
   11    (1)  [Four  thousand  four  hundred dollars for each institution] FIVE
   12  THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO
   13  THOUSAND  THIRTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND  FOURTEEN,  SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
   14  SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND
   15  FOURTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN, EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
   16  EACH INSTITUTION IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND
   17  SIXTEEN,  TEN  THOUSAND  DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO
   18  THOUSAND SIXTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, and
   19    (2) One dollar and four cents for each  full-time  equivalent  student
   20  enrolled  in each qualifying institution, in the academic year completed
   21  prior to [the] state fiscal year  TWO  THOUSAND  THIRTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND
   22  FOURTEEN.  THEREAFTER THE RATE SHALL BE SET AT THE LEVEL OF THE PREVIOUS
   23  FISCAL  YEAR  INDEXED TO ANY POSITIVE GROWTH IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
   24  AS SET BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. For purposes  of
   25  this section, a full-time equivalent shall be calculated as follows:
   26    (i)  one full-time undergraduate student shall be considered one full-
   27  time equivalent student;
   28    (ii) one part-time undergraduate student shall be considered one-third
   29  of a full-time equivalent student;
   30    (iii) one part-time graduate student shall be considered one full-time
   31  equivalent student; and
   32    (iv) one full-time graduate student shall be considered one  and  one-
   33  half of a full-time equivalent student.
   34    c.  Funds for the support of this program shall be appropriated to the
   35  department, except that funds for the state-operated institutions of the
   36  state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city univer-
   37  sity of New York, shall be appropriated to the state university  of  New
   38  York  out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the
   39  credit of the state purposes fund not otherwise appropriated, and  funds
   40  shall  be  appropriated  to  the  city university of New York out of any
   41  moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the  credit  of  the
   42  local  assistance  fund not otherwise appropriated, and shall be subject
   43  to the same distribution formula as provided  in  paragraph  b  of  this
   44  subdivision.
   45    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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