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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5986

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CHU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Libraries

        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  paper-
    14  back  books,  periodicals, that is, publications which appear at regular
    15  intervals of less than one year on a continuing basis for an  indefinite
    16  period,  documents  other  than  books, pamphlets, musical scores, other
    17  printed and published materials, [and] (ii)  for  school  year  nineteen
    18  hundred  eighty-six--eighty-seven and thereafter, audio/visual materials
    19  including films, film strips, micro-film,  sound  recordings,  processed
    20  slides,  transparencies,  kinescopes, video tapes, maps, charts, globes,
    21  pictorial works, including pictures  and  picture  sets,  reproductions,
    22  photographs,  graphic  works,  and any other audio/visual materials of a
    23  similar nature made, and any digital materials that can be  accessed  by
    24  computer.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10431-01-3