Bill Text: NY A07246 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to changing the time for calculating amounts for awards of grants to support preservation and/or conservation of library research materials from being calculated for each state fiscal year, to each academic year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.578 [A07246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07246-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7246

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 15, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Libraries and Education Technology

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the award of grants to
          support preservation and/or conservation of library research materials

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs a and c of subdivision 6 of section 273 of the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter  563  of  the  laws  of  2021,  are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  The  commissioner shall award in any [state fiscal] academic year,
     5  an annual formula grant of one hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars  for
     6  a  program of conservation and/or preservation of library research mate-
     7  rials to each of the following comprehensive research libraries:  Colum-
     8  bia  university  libraries, Cornell university libraries, New York state
     9  library,  New  York  university  libraries,  university   of   Rochester
    10  libraries,  Syracuse university libraries, the research libraries of the
    11  New York public library, state university of New York at Albany library,
    12  state university of New York at Binghamton library, state university  of
    13  New  York  at Buffalo library, and state university of New York at Stony
    14  Brook library.
    15    c. Other agencies and libraries, as defined in regulations promulgated
    16  by the commissioner, which are not eligible for funding under  paragraph
    17  a  of  this  subdivision,  may  receive separate grants the sum of which
    18  shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars  in  any  [state  fiscal]
    19  academic  year to support the preservation and/or conservation of unique
    20  library research materials. Such agencies  and  libraries  shall  submit
    21  project proposals. Approval of such project proposals, and determination
    22  of  funding level, shall be based upon, but not limited to, factors such
    23  as:  the research value of materials to be preserved  and/or  conserved;
    24  appropriateness  of  conservation and preservation techniques in accord-
    25  ance with  statewide  planning  and  national  standards;  institutional

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11361-01-3
        A. 7246                             2

     1  capacity for successful completion of the project, including facilities,
     2  experience,  and  technical expertise; availability of staff with appro-
     3  priate training and expertise; contribution of the  institution  to  the
     4  project  in matching funds and staff resources; and the volume of inter-
     5  library lending and access to holdings by the public. Ninety percent  of
     6  each such grant shall be payable upon approval by the department and the
     7  remaining ten percent shall be payable upon project completion.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.