Assembly Bill A10346

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to state aid to libraries and library systems

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A10346 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7238
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §272, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A5332, S2857

2011-A10346 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to state aid to libraries and library systems; provides for automatic waiver of local maintenance of effort requirements in the event that state aid for public library systems is reduced by more than 15%; provides the commissioner with authority to waive provisions of certain categorical aid programs in the event that state aid programs are reduced by more than 15%.

2011-A10346 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10346

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 23, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Libraries and Education Technology

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state aid to libraries
  and library systems

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subparagraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 of paragraph j of subdivision 1
of section 272 of the education law, subparagraphs 1, 2 and 3 as amended
by section 2 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2005, subparagraph 4
as added by chapter 386 of the laws of 1996,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (1)  IN  THE EVENT THAT THE STATE AID FORMULA FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR A
PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM UNDER SECTION TWO HUNDRED  SEVENTY-THREE  OF  THIS
PART  ARE LESS THAN EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE STATUTORY FORMULA AMOUNTS
IN SUCH SECTION, THE PROVISIONS OF SUBPARAGRAPHS TWO AND  FIVE  OF  THIS
PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT APPLY.
  (2) In the event that the sum total of local sponsor support raised by
local  taxation exclusive of the sum raised for capital expenditures for
the support of a public library system and participating libraries in  a
twelve  month  period is less than ninety-five per centum of the average
of the amounts raised for such purposes by local taxation  for  the  two
preceding  twelve  month  periods,  the  state aid to which such library
system would otherwise be entitled shall be reduced by  twenty-five  per
centum.  Such  state  aid  shall  likewise be reduced by twenty-five per
centum in the event that the public library system  shall  refuse  after
reasonable notice to make provision for the expansion of the area served
in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner.  Upon receipt of
annual systems and participating libraries activity reports satisfactory
to  the commissioner, the commissioner shall determine the amount of any
underpayment or overpayments related to maintenance of effort and  shall
apply  such  adjustment  to  the  next  annual  payment due such library
system. In the first year  in  which  any  library  system  changes  its
reporting  from the calendar year to a fiscal year other than the calen-
dar year, it shall file any additional reporting schedules deemed neces-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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