Bill Text: NY A06385 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enables public libraries to access employment preparation education (EPE) funds to provide adult literacy instruction; sets aside three million dollars to be awarded through a competitive grant process; provides that half of such appropriation shall be set aside for libraries serving a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-17 - print number 6385b [A06385 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06385-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6385--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 16, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  REILLY, COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, P. RIVERA, GALEF,
         CAHILL, GUNTHER, N. RIVERA, SCHROEDER, JAFFEE, BARRON, GIBSON, STEVEN-
         SON, ROBERTS, LUPARDO, RUSSELL, MARKEY, WEPRIN --  Multi-Sponsored  by
         --  M.  of A.   ABINANTI, BRENNAN, MAGEE, MAYERSOHN, McENENY, PHEFFER,
         THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
         Education  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  enabling  public
         libraries  to  access  employment preparation education (EPE) funds to
         provide adult literacy instruction
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  11  of  section 3602 of the education law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph a-2 to read as follows:
    3    A-2. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH A  OF  THIS  SUBDIVI-
    4  SION,  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  SET  ASIDE  AN  AMOUNT OF THREE MILLION
    5  DOLLARS OR THE UNSPENT REMAINDER OF THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR'S APPROPRI-
    6  ATION FOR THIS PROGRAM, WHICHEVER IS  MORE,  TO  BE  AWARDED  THROUGH  A
    7  COMPETITIVE  GRANT  PROCESS  TO  PUBLIC  LIBRARIES TO PROVIDE ANY OF THE
    8  SERVICES AUTHORIZED IN THIS SUBDIVISION. HOWEVER, NO LESS THAN HALF  THE
    9  ANNUAL  APPROPRIATION  SHALL BE SET ASIDE FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES SERVING A
   10  POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  HAVE  THE
   11  AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS
   12  OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
   13    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
   14  succeeding 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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