Bill Text: NY A04492 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sets forth procedure by which commissioner of education can designate official state book for period of one year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-23 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A04492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04492-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4492
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. RAIA, McKEVITT, FINCH -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to designating  the  official
         state book
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The state law is amended by adding a new section 90 to read
    2  as follows:
    3    S 90. STATE BOOK. EACH YEAR PRIOR TO MAY FIRST, EVERY SCHOOL  DISTRICT
    4  IN  THE  STATE  SHALL SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION ITS CHOICE
    5  FOR THE STATE BOOK FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR, SUCH SELECTION  BEING  MADE
    6  ACCORDING  TO  STANDARDS  DETERMINED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER.  FROM  SUCH
    7  SUBMISSIONS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SELECT ONE BOOK TO BE DESIGNATED  THE
    8  NEW  YORK STATE BOOK FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR COMMENCING JUNE FIRST. THE
    9  SCHOOL DISTRICT SUBMITTING THE BOOK SO  DESIGNATED  AS  THE  STATE  BOOK
   10  SHALL  RECEIVE  SUCH  SALUTATIONS  AND COMMENDATIONS AS THE COMMISSIONER
   11  SHALL DETERMINE.
   12    ON OR BEFORE JUNE FIRST OF EACH YEAR THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION  IS
   13  DIRECTED TO FORWARD HIS OR HER SELECTION OF THE STATE BOOK FOR THE ENSU-
   14  ING YEAR TO THE GOVERNOR, TEMPORARY PRESIDENT AND MINORITY LEADER OF THE
   15  SENATE,  SPEAKER  AND MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE MEMBERS OF
   16  THE DELEGATION TO THE LEGISLATURE COMPRISING THE DISTRICTS OF WHICH  THE
   17  PREVAILING  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IS  A  PART.    NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER
   18  PROVISION OF THIS SECTION, DURING THE FIRST YEAR FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE
   19  DATE OF THIS SECTION, THE BOOK "ROBERT'S TALL FRIEND" AUTHORED BY VIRGI-
   20  NIA HARRIS SHALL BE DESIGNATED THE STATE BOOK.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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