Bill Text: NY A08888 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to aid for coordinated collection development grants for public and non-profit independent colleges and universities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - reference changed to libraries and education technology [A08888 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8888
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 4, 2012
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  aid  for  coordinated
         collection  development  grants  for public and non-profit independent
         colleges and universities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings. The formula directing state aid to
    2  public and private academic and research libraries has not been adjusted
    3  since 1984. During that time prices of published academic materials have
    4  outpaced inflation, often rising at a rate of more than three times that
    5  of inflation. The state provides aid to these libraries for the  purpose
    6  of  improving access and resources in a coordinated manner. This program
    7  needs an adjustment in its formula if the goals of quality and  accessi-
    8  ble  scholarship  are  to  be  maintained.  Therefore, it is in the best
    9  interests of the state, its citizens and long-term academic and economic
   10  prospects to support modernization of the coordinated collection  devel-
   11  opment aid (CCDA) formula.
   12    S  2. Subdivision 5 of section 273 of the education law, as amended by
   13  section 3 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of  2005,  is  amended  to
   14  read as follows:
   15    5. Coordinated collection development program for public and nonprofit
   16  independent colleges and universities.
   17    a.  Libraries of public and nonprofit independent colleges and univer-
   18  sities  are  entitled  to  receive  annual  funding  for  a  coordinated
   19  collection development grant if they meet the following conditions:
   20    (1) Membership in a reference and research library resources system,
   21    (2)  Their  resources  are  made available to the public, through full
   22  participation in  the  interlibrary  loan  and  other  resource  sharing
   23  programs of the reference and research library resources system of which
   24  they are members, and
   25    (3) They meet the requirements set forth in regulations adopted by the
   26  commissioner including but not confined to
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 8888                             2
    1    (a) maintenance of effort,
    2    (b)  relationships  between  reference  and research library resources
    3  systems' programs and the regional higher education master plan,
    4    (c) submission of interlibrary loan statistics, and such other reports
    5  as may be required by the commissioner.
    6    b. Public and nonprofit independent  colleges  and  universities  with
    7  libraries which meet the criteria of paragraph a of this subdivision are
    8  eligible for annual grants as follows:
    9    (1)  [Four  thousand  four  hundred dollars for each institution] FIVE
   10  THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO
   11  THOUSAND  ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVEN-
   12  TY-FIVE DOLLARS  FOR  EACH  INSTITUTION  IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND
   13  TWELVE--TWO  THOUSAND  THIRTEEN,  EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
   14  EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND  THIRTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND
   15  FOURTEEN,  TEN  THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO
   16  THOUSAND FOURTEEN--TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, and
   17    (2) One dollar and four cents for each  full-time  equivalent  student
   18  enrolled  in each qualifying institution, in the academic year completed
   19  prior to [the] state  fiscal  year  TWO  THOUSAND  ELEVEN--TWO  THOUSAND
   20  TWELVE.    THEREAFTER THE RATE SHALL BE SET AT THE LEVEL OF THE PREVIOUS
   21  FISCAL YEAR INDEXED TO ANY POSITIVE GROWTH IN THE CONSUMER  PRICE  INDEX
   22  AS  SET BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. For purposes of
   23  this section, a full-time equivalent shall be calculated as follows:
   24    (i) one full-time undergraduate student shall be considered one  full-
   25  time equivalent student;
   26    (ii) one part-time undergraduate student shall be considered one-third
   27  of a full-time equivalent student;
   28    (iii) one part-time graduate student shall be considered one full-time
   29  equivalent student; and
   30    (iv)  one  full-time graduate student shall be considered one and one-
   31  half of a full-time equivalent student.
   32    c. Funds for the support of this program shall be appropriated to  the
   33  department, except that funds for the state-operated institutions of the
   34  state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city univer-
   35  sity  of  New York, shall be appropriated to the state university of New
   36  York out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to  the
   37  credit  of the state purposes fund not otherwise appropriated, and funds
   38  shall be appropriated to the city university of  New  York  out  of  any
   39  moneys  in  the  state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the
   40  local assistance fund not otherwise appropriated, and shall  be  subject
   41  to  the  same  distribution  formula  as provided in paragraph b of this
   42  subdivision.
   43    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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