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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD08322-01-3 S. 3688 2 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.