BILL NO A08888
SAME AS SAME AS S03390
SPONSOR Quart
COSPNSR Gunther, Millman, Robinson, Weprin
MLTSPNSR Brennan, Hooper
Amd S273, Ed L
Relates to aid for coordinated collection development grants for public and
non-profit independent colleges and universities.
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
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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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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.
