Bill Text: NY S07239 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes financial disincentives for voluntary public library system and reference and research library resources system mergers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2012-10-03 - VETOED MEMO.171 [S07239 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07239-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7239
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 2, 2012
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       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 state aid to libraries
         and library systems
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  273  of the education law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph o to read as follows:
    3    O. ANY NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM  ESTABLISHED  THROUGH  MERGER  ON  OR
    4  AFTER  APRIL  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWELVE, SHALL RECEIVE NO LESS STATE
    5  FORMULA AID THAN THE COMPONENT PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEMS WERE  ENTITLED  TO
    6  RECEIVE  UNDER THIS SECTION AND SECTIONS TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO AND TWO
    7  HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE OF THIS PART IN THE FISCAL YEAR IMMEDIATELY PRECEED-
    8  ING THE YEAR IN WHICH SUCH MERGER IS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
    9    S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 273 of the education law is  amended  by
   10  adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
   11    D. ANY NEW REFERENCE AND RESEARCH LIBRARY RESOURCES SYSTEM ESTABLISHED
   12  THROUGH  MERGER  ON  OR  AFTER  APRIL  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, SHALL
   13  RECEIVE NO LESS STATE FORMULA  AID  THAN  THE  COMPONENT  REFERENCE  AND
   14  RESEARCH  LIBRARY  RESOURCES SYSTEMS WERE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE UNDER THIS
   15  SECTION AND SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF THIS PART IN  THE  FISCAL
   16  YEAR  IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE YEAR IN WHICH SUCH MERGER IS APPROVED BY
   17  THE COMMISSIONER.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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