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.
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