Bill Text: NY S07677 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Ensures that staff in libraries are able to curate collections, services, and programming that reflect the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-21 - PRINT NUMBER 7677A [S07677 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07677-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7677--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     October 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MAY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Libraries in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          libraries  to  adopt  policies ensuring that library staff are able to
          curate collections, services, and  programming  that  reflect  diverse
          interests

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

     1    Section 1. Section 254 of the education law, as amended by chapter 718
     2  of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 254. Standards of library service. 1. The regents shall  have  power
     4  to  fix  standards of library service for every free association, public
     5  and hospital library or, with  the  advice  of  the  appropriate  tribal
     6  government  and library board of trustees, Indian library which receives
     7  any portion of  the  moneys  appropriated  by  the  state  to  aid  such
     8  libraries,  or  which  is supported in whole or in part by tax levied by
     9  any municipality or district. In the case of a  hospital  library  or  a
    10  library  serving  a  hospital,  such  standards  shall be established in
    11  consultation with the commissioner of health. If any such library  shall
    12  fail  to  comply  with  the regents requirements, such library shall not
    13  receive any portion of the moneys appropriated by the  state  for  free,
    14  hospital  or Indian libraries nor shall any tax be levied by any munici-
    15  pality or district for the support in whole or in part of such library.
    16    2. Such standards shall require every free  association,  public,  and
    17  hospital  library  or, with the advice of the appropriate tribal govern-
    18  ment and library board of trustees, Indian library, which  receives  any
    19  portion  of  the moneys appropriated by the state to aid such libraries,
    20  to adopt policies and procedures that ensure library staff are  able  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  curate  and  develop collections, services, and programming that reflect
     2  the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.