Bill Text: NY S08478 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that for aid payable in the two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year, the library materials factor shall be eleven dollars; provides that for each following school year, the library materials factor shall be determined on an annual basis to reflect the percentage increase in the consumer price index.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-20 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S08478 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8478

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. CHU, MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Libraries

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the library  materials
          factor

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section  711  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  7  of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. No school district shall  be  required  to  purchase  or  otherwise
     5  acquire  school  library  materials,  the  cost of which shall exceed an
     6  amount equal to the library materials factor multiplied by  the  sum  of
     7  the  public  school district enrollment and the nonpublic school enroll-
     8  ment in the base year as defined in subparagraphs two and three of para-
     9  graph n of subdivision one of section thirty-six  hundred  two  of  this
    10  chapter.  For aid payable in the nineteen hundred ninety-eight--nineteen
    11  hundred ninety-nine school year, the library materials factor  shall  be
    12  four  dollars.  For  aid payable in the two thousand seven--two thousand
    13  eight school year and thereafter, the library materials factor shall  be
    14  six  dollars  and twenty-five cents. For aid payable in the two thousand
    15  twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year, the library  materials
    16  factor  shall  be  eleven  dollars.  For each following school year, the
    17  library materials factor shall be determined on an annual basis  by  the
    18  director  of  the  budget in consultation with the commissioner based on
    19  the rate of inflation for the most recent  twelve  month  period  ending
    20  June of that year.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14367-01-4