STATE OF NEW YORK
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5390
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 18, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BING, GUNTHER, PAULIN, MILLMAN, ZEBROWSKI,
JAFFEE, GALEF, LINARES, N. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
DESTITO, GABRYSZAK, GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO, MAYERSOHN, McENENY, PHEFFER,
SWEENEY, THIELE -- 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 § 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,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (2) Their resources are made available to the public, through full
2 participation in the interlibrary loan and other resource sharing
3 programs of the reference and research library resources system of which
4 they are members, and
5 (3) They meet the requirements set forth in regulations adopted by the
6 commissioner including but not confined to
7 (a) maintenance of effort,
8 (b) relationships between reference and research library resources
9 systems' programs and the regional higher education master plan,
10 (c) submission of interlibrary loan statistics, and such other reports
11 as may be required by the commissioner.
12 b. Public and nonprofit independent colleges and universities with
13 libraries which meet the criteria of paragraph a of this subdivision are
14 eligible for annual grants as follows:
15 (1) [Four thousand four hundred dollars for each institution] Five
16 thousand five hundred dollars for each institution in fiscal year two
17 thousand eleven--two thousand twelve, six thousand eight hundred seven-
18 ty-five dollars for each institution in fiscal year two thousand twelve-
19 -two thousand thirteen, eight thousand six hundred dollars for each
20 institution in fiscal year two thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen,
21 ten thousand dollars for each institution in fiscal year two thousand
22 fourteen--two thousand fifteen, and
23 (2) One dollar and four cents for each full-time equivalent student
24 enrolled in each qualifying institution, in the academic year completed
25 prior to [the] state fiscal year two thousand eleven--two thousand
26 twelve. Thereafter the rate shall be set at the level of the previous
27 fiscal year indexed to any positive growth in the Consumer Price Index
28 as set by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. For purposes of
29 this section, a full-time equivalent shall be calculated as follows:
30 (i) one full-time undergraduate student shall be considered one full-
31 time equivalent student;
32 (ii) one part-time undergraduate student shall be considered one-third
33 of a full-time equivalent student;
34 (iii) one part-time graduate student shall be considered one full-time
35 equivalent student; and
36 (iv) one full-time graduate student shall be considered one and one-
37 half of a full-time equivalent student.
38 c. Funds for the support of this program shall be appropriated to the
39 department, except that funds for the state-operated institutions of the
40 state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city univer-
41 sity of New York, shall be appropriated to the state university of New
42 York out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the
43 credit of the state purposes fund not otherwise appropriated, and funds
44 shall be appropriated to the city university of New York out of any
45 moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the
46 local assistance fund not otherwise appropriated, and shall be subject
47 to the same distribution formula as provided in paragraph b of this
48 subdivision.
49 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
