STATE OF NEW YORK
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5332--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 22, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Libraries and Education Technology -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to maintenance of effort
for state aid to public library systems
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph j of subdivision 1 of section
2 272 of the education law, as amended by section 2 of part O of chapter
3 57 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
4 (3) The commissioner may waive the requirements of subparagraphs one
5 and two of this paragraph, if the commissioner determines that the
6 application of such subparagraphs would result in excessive hardship for
7 the public library system or central library brought about by an
8 extraordinary change in a local sponsor's economic condition, loss by a
9 local sponsor of state aid to local governments provided under section
10 fifty-four of the state finance law, or by a natural disaster. [Such
11 waiver may be granted only one time to each public library system or
12 central library within five calendar years. The commissioner may grant
13 such waiver for a period of up to two consecutive calendar years.] The
14 commissioner shall determine the time period for which such waiver will
15 be granted. The commissioner shall report any waivers granted under this
16 subparagraph to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of
17 the senate, the chairs of the legislative fiscal committees and the
18 director of the division of the budget.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06735-03-3
