Bill Text: NY S05986 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes digital materials within school library materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-31 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6807 [S05986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05986-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5986--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. CHU, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Libraries -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to digital materials

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  711 of the education law, as
     2  amended by section 2 of part A-1 of chapter 58 of the laws of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  School  library  materials, for the purposes of this article shall
     5  mean [both] digital materials, audio/visual materials and printed  mate-
     6  rials  that  may  or may not require magnification which meet all of the
     7  following criteria: (1) materials which are catalogued and processed  as
     8  part  of the school library or media center for use by elementary and/or
     9  secondary school children and teachers; (2) materials which with reason-
    10  able care and use may be expected to last more than one  year;  and  (3)
    11  materials which would not be eligible for aid pursuant to sections seven
    12  hundred  one  and  seven hundred fifty-one of this title. School library
    13  materials meeting these criteria  may  include  (i)  hard  cover  [and],
    14  paperback  books  and  e-books,  periodicals, that is, print and digital
    15  publications which are subscription-based and appear at  regular  inter-
    16  vals of less than one year on a continuing basis for an indefinite peri-
    17  od,  documents  other  than  books,  pamphlets,  musical  scores,  other
    18  printed, digital and published materials, [and]  (ii)  for  school  year
    19  nineteen  hundred  eighty-six--eighty-seven and thereafter, audio/visual
    20  materials including films, film strips,  micro-film,  sound  recordings,
    21  processed slides, transparencies, kinescopes, video tapes, maps, charts,
    22  globes,  pictorial  works,  including pictures and picture sets, reprod-
    23  uctions, photographs, graphic works, and any other audio/visual  materi-
    24  als of a similar nature made.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10431-02-3