Ensures that staff in libraries are able to curate collections, services, and programming that reflect the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7843--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 7, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, SEAWRIGHT, EACHUS, SIMON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
Libraries and Education Technology in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain
libraries to adopt policies ensuring that library staff are able to
curate collections, services, and programming that reflect diverse
interests
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 254 of the education law, as amended by chapter 718
2 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 254. Standards of library service. 1. The regents shall have power
4 to fix standards of library service for every free association, public
5 and hospital library or, with the advice of the appropriate tribal
6 government and library board of trustees, Indian library which receives
7 any portion of the moneys appropriated by the state to aid such
8 libraries, or which is supported in whole or in part by tax levied by
9 any municipality or district. In the case of a hospital library or a
10 library serving a hospital, such standards shall be established in
11 consultation with the commissioner of health. If any such library shall
12 fail to comply with the regents requirements, such library shall not
13 receive any portion of the moneys appropriated by the state for free,
14 hospital or Indian libraries nor shall any tax be levied by any munici-
15 pality or district for the support in whole or in part of such library.
16 2. Such standards shall require every free association, public, and
17 hospital library or, with the advice of the appropriate tribal govern-
18 ment and library board of trustees, Indian library, which receives any
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 portion of the moneys appropriated by the state to aid such libraries,
2 to adopt policies and procedures that ensure library staff are able to
3 curate and develop collections, services, and programming that reflect
4 the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
6 have become a law.