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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3594
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 1, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Libraries
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD05474-01-3