Bill Text: NY A04542 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4542 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires librarians for schools in New York city.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A04542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04542-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4542

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  requiring  librarians
          for schools in New York city

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

     1    Section 1. Section 275 of the education law  is  amended  to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    § 275. Librarians of school libraries.  In a school district maintain-
     4  ing  an  academic  department  or high school the board of education may
     5  employ, and fix the compensation of, a person to act as school librarian
     6  who may be engaged for all or a part of the time in performance  of  the
     7  duties of the position as may be directed by the said board.  The person
     8  so  employed,  who  may  be  the librarian of the free library, shall be
     9  possessed of the  qualifications  prescribed  by  the  commissioner  [of
    10  education].    In all other districts the trustees or board of education
    11  may appoint a competent person to act as librarian.  In case of a  fail-
    12  ure  of  a  city  or  union free school district maintaining an academic
    13  department or high school to employ a librarian as above  provided,  the
    14  teacher  of English in such school shall be the librarian.  In case of a
    15  failure to appoint a librarian in any other district, the teacher, or if
    16  there be more than one teacher  the  principal  teacher,  shall  act  as
    17  librarian.    The  trustees  or  board  of education shall report to the
    18  commissioner [of education] the name and address of the person  employed
    19  or  appointed  as librarian.   In the city of New York, every elementary
    20  school, middle school and high school shall have a school librarian.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    22  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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