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S01100 Summary:

BILL NOS01100A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A03119-B
 
SPONSORMAY
 
COSPNSRCOMRIE, HARCKHAM, MYRIE, SALAZAR, WEBB
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §254, Ed L
 
Ensures that library staff of free association, public, and hospital libraries, and with certain advice, Indian libraries, are able to develop collections, services, and programming that reflect the values and protections established under the human rights law and the equal rights amendment to the state constitution.
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S01100 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1100--A
            Cal. No. 650
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. MAY, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, MYRIE, SALAZAR, WEBB -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Libraries  --  reported  favorably from said committee,
          ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
          by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,
          restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          libraries  to  adopt  policies ensuring that library staff are able to
          curate and develop collections, services, and programming that reflect
          the values and protections established under the human rights law  and
          the equal rights amendment to the state constitution
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
     2  the "open shelves act".
     3    §  2.  Legislative  intent.  It  is  the sense of the legislature that
     4  public libraries are essential to ensuring broad access to  information,
     5  fostering  informed  citizenship, intellectual exploration, and imagina-
     6  tion. By ensuring that library collections,  services,  and  programming
     7  reflect  diverse  experiences and perspectives, the legislature seeks to
     8  maintain libraries as spaces where all  members  of  the  community  can
     9  engage  with the marketplace of ideas, promoting open access to informa-
    10  tion and points of view. Librarians are professionals trained to  curate
    11  robust  collections  that  serve the full spectrum of their communities,
    12  and this legislation affirms the state's trust in their  ability  to  do
    13  so.
    14    §  3.  Section  254 of the education law, as amended by chapter 718 of
    15  the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
    16    § 254. Standards of library service. 1. The regents shall  have  power
    17  to  fix  standards of library service for every free association, public
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00089-08-5

        S. 1100--A                          2
 
     1  and hospital library or, with  the  advice  of  the  appropriate  tribal
     2  government  and library board of trustees, Indian library which receives
     3  any portion of  the  moneys  appropriated  by  the  state  to  aid  such
     4  libraries,  or  which  is supported in whole or in part by tax levied by
     5  any municipality or district. In the case of a  hospital  library  or  a
     6  library  serving  a  hospital,  such  standards  shall be established in
     7  consultation with the commissioner of health. If any such library  shall
     8  fail  to  comply  with  the regents requirements, such library shall not
     9  receive any portion of the moneys appropriated by the  state  for  free,
    10  hospital  or Indian libraries nor shall any tax be levied by any munici-
    11  pality or district for the support in whole or in part of such library.
    12    2. Such standards shall require every free  association,  public,  and
    13  hospital  library  or, with the advice of the appropriate tribal govern-
    14  ment and library board of trustees, Indian library, which  receives  any
    15  portion  of  the moneys appropriated by the state to aid such libraries,
    16  to adopt policies and procedures that ensure library staff are  able  to
    17  curate  and  develop library collections, services, and programming in a
    18  manner that shall be consistent with the values and  protections  estab-
    19  lished under the human rights law under article fifteen of the executive
    20  law and the equal rights amendment to the state constitution.
    21    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.
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