Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library at twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5266
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG, SLATER -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to setting the number of
petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of
funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a
registered public or free association library
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section
2 259 of the education law, as amended by chapter 184 of the laws of 2007,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) Except as provided in subparagraph two of this paragraph, whenever
5 twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality[, in a number equal to at
6 least ten per centum of the total number of votes cast in such munici-
7 pality for governor at the last gubernatorial election,] shall so peti-
8 tion and the library board of trustees shall endorse, the question of
9 establishing or increasing the amount of funding of the annual contrib-
10 ution for the operating budget of a registered public or free associ-
11 ation library by such municipality to a sum specified in said petition,
12 shall be voted on at the next general election of such municipality,
13 provided that due public notice of the proposed action shall have been
14 given. An increase in library funding provided pursuant to this para-
15 graph shall not apply to a municipal budget adopted prior to the date of
16 such election.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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