Bill Text: NY S05753 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that no more than fifty percent of the total funds appropriated to a library system may be used to support the total costs for projects receiving state aid in excess of seventy-five percent of the total approved costs.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-15 - SIGNED CHAP.627 [S05753 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05753-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5753--A
            Cal. No. 806

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 17, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  RYAN,  HELMING, MANNION -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Libraries  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
          and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed  by  Senate  and
          delivered  to  the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
          third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  in
          the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation to increasing the
          percentage of total funds appropriated to a library system that may be
          used to support projects receiving state aid in excess of seventy-five
          percent

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 273-a of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 381 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  In  approving  any application that would receive state aid beyond
     5  seventy-five percent of the total project approved costs, the  board  of
     6  trustees  of  the  library  system  shall  give  particular attention to
     7  addressing the library service needs of economically distressed communi-
     8  ties as provided for in paragraph f of subdivision two of this  section.
     9  No  more  than  [ten] fifty percent of the total funds appropriated to a
    10  library system in subdivision six of this section may be used to support
    11  the total costs for projects that would receive state aid beyond  seven-
    12  ty-five percent of the total project approved costs.
    13    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
    14  the amendments to subdivision 4 of section 273-a of  the  education  law
    15  made  by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such
    16  section and shall be deemed expired therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10464-03-1