Bill Text: NY S08058 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring libraries to provide free two-day passes to state parks and historic sites for households of up to six members.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-22 - REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION [S08058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08058-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8058
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 22, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation
        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law  and
          the  education  law, in relation to creating the explorer empire pass-
          port
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  parks,  recreation  and historic preservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new section 13.22 to read as follows:
     3    § 13.22 Explorer empire passport. Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of
     4  any  other  law,  the office shall provide public libraries free two-day
     5  passes, or passes for one night of camping, to state parks and  historic
     6  sites for up to six members of the same household, of which at least one
     7  member is registered with such library. Such passes shall be referred to
     8  as  the explorer empire passport and each library shall be provided with
     9  a minimum of two such passes.
    10    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 286 to  read
    11  as follows:
    12    §  286.  Explorer empire passport. All public libraries, as defined in
    13  section two hundred fifty-three of this part, shall make available  free
    14  two-day  passes,  or passes for one night of camping, to state parks and
    15  historic sites for up to six members of the same household, of which  at
    16  least  one  member  is  registered with such library, in accordance with
    17  section 13.22 of the parks, recreation and  historic  preservation  law.
    18  All  such  passes shall be subject to the return policy utilized by each
    19  individual library. Such passes shall be referred  to  as  the  explorer
    20  empire passport and each library shall be provided with a minimum of two
    21  such passes.
    22    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
    24  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule or regulation by the
    25  commissioner of parks,  recreation  and  historic  preservation  or  the
    26  commissioner  of  education necessary for the implementation of this act
    27  on its effective date  are  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and
    28  completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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