Removes financial disincentives for voluntary public library system and reference and research library resources system mergers.

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A10347-2011 Actions

• Jun 19, 2012: substituted by s7239
• Jun 18, 2012: ordered to third reading rules cal.366
• Jun 18, 2012: rules report cal.366
• Jun 18, 2012: reported
• Jun 18, 2012: reported referred to rules
• May 31, 2012: reported referred to ways and means
• May 23, 2012: referred to libraries and education technology

A10347-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    10347

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                May 23, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
    on Libraries and Education Technology

  AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state aid to libraries
    and library systems

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  273  of  the  education  law  is
  amended by adding a new paragraph o to read as follows:

    O.  ANY  NEW  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  SYSTEM ESTABLISHED THROUGH MERGER ON OR
  AFTER APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE,  SHALL  RECEIVE  NO  LESS  STATE
  FORMULA  AID  THAN THE COMPONENT PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEMS WERE ENTITLED TO
  RECEIVE UNDER THIS SECTION AND SECTIONS TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO AND  TWO
  HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE OF THIS PART IN THE FISCAL YEAR IMMEDIATELY PRECEED-
  ING THE YEAR IN WHICH SUCH MERGER IS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
    S  2.  Subdivision 4 of section 273 of the education law is amended by
  adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:

    D. ANY NEW REFERENCE AND RESEARCH LIBRARY RESOURCES SYSTEM ESTABLISHED
  THROUGH MERGER ON OR AFTER  APRIL  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWELVE,  SHALL
  RECEIVE  NO  LESS  STATE  FORMULA  AID  THAN THE COMPONENT REFERENCE AND
  RESEARCH LIBRARY RESOURCES SYSTEMS WERE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE  UNDER  THIS
  SECTION  AND  SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF THIS PART IN THE FISCAL
  YEAR IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE YEAR IN WHICH SUCH MERGER IS APPROVED  BY
  THE COMMISSIONER.
    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD15509-01-2