Bill Text: NY A00482 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of education to design and implement a biennial contest to choose the official Empire state children's book.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to education [A00482 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A00482-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          482
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN  ACT  to authorize the commissioner of education to design and imple-
         ment a biennial contest to name an official  Empire  state  children's
         book
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Empire state children's book project. 1.  The  commissioner
    2  of  education, or his or her designee, is hereby authorized and directed
    3  to design and implement the Empire state children's book  project.  Such
    4  project  design  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, the following
    5  components:
    6    (a) Such commissioner or his or her designee shall develop the  crite-
    7  ria  for  and  a  process  for  determining the five books which will be
    8  considered official children's book finalists.
    9    (b) Such commissioner or his or her designee shall design a  statewide
   10  contest  in  which all elementary school students shall vote, from among
   11  the five finalists, for the official Empire state children's book.
   12    (c) Such process  for  choosing  five  finalists  and  such  statewide
   13  contest shall be conducted by the education department every two years.
   14    2.  The  official Empire state children's book shall be highlighted as
   15  such and made available for display and sale during the  period  of  its
   16  biennial  reign  at  all  public elementary schools and their libraries,
   17  public libraries, state sponsored functions, fairs and events for  chil-
   18  dren,  the state museum gift shop, and on the state website. Any and all
   19  proceeds collected by the education department in the sale of such offi-
   20  cial state children's book shall be used to offset the future  costs  of
   21  the Empire state children's book project.
   22    S  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the first
   23  official children's book shall be chosen on or before the first of Octo-
   24  ber, 2011.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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