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                                  5390

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            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:

  Section 1. Legislative findings. The formula directing  state  aid  to
public and private academic and research libraries has not been adjusted
since 1984. During that time prices of published academic materials have
outpaced inflation, often rising at a rate of more than three times that
of  inflation. The state provides aid to these libraries for the purpose
of improving access and resources in a coordinated manner. This  program
needs  an adjustment in its formula if the goals of quality and accessi-
ble scholarship are to be maintained.  Therefore,  it  is  in  the  best
interests of the state, its citizens and long-term academic and economic
prospects  to support modernization of the coordinated collection devel-
opment aid (CCDA) formula.
  S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 273 of the education law, as amended  by
section  3  of  part  O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2005, is amended to
read as follows:
  5. Coordinated collection development program for public and nonprofit
independent colleges and universities.
  a. Libraries of public and nonprofit independent colleges and  univer-
sities  are  entitled  to  receive  annual  funding  for  a  coordinated
collection development grant if they meet the following conditions:
  (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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  (2) Their resources are made available to  the  public,  through  full
participation  in  the  interlibrary  loan  and  other  resource sharing
programs of the reference and research library resources system of which
they are members, and
  (3) They meet the requirements set forth in regulations adopted by the
commissioner including but not confined to
  (a) maintenance of effort,
  (b)  relationships  between  reference  and research library resources
systems' programs and the regional higher education master plan,
  (c) submission of interlibrary loan statistics, and such other reports
as may be required by the commissioner.
  b. Public and nonprofit independent  colleges  and  universities  with
libraries which meet the criteria of paragraph a of this subdivision are
eligible for annual grants as follows:
  (1)  [Four  thousand  four  hundred dollars for each institution] FIVE
THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO
THOUSAND  ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVEN-
TY-FIVE DOLLARS  FOR  EACH  INSTITUTION  IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND
TWELVE--TWO  THOUSAND  THIRTEEN,  EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND  THIRTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND
FOURTEEN,  TEN  THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO
THOUSAND FOURTEEN--TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, and
  (2) One dollar and four cents for each  full-time  equivalent  student
enrolled  in each qualifying institution, in the academic year completed
prior to [the] state  fiscal  year  TWO  THOUSAND  ELEVEN--TWO  THOUSAND
TWELVE.    THEREAFTER THE RATE SHALL BE SET AT THE LEVEL OF THE PREVIOUS
FISCAL YEAR INDEXED TO ANY POSITIVE GROWTH IN THE CONSUMER  PRICE  INDEX
AS  SET BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. For purposes of
this section, a full-time equivalent shall be calculated as follows:
  (i) one full-time undergraduate student shall be considered one  full-
time equivalent student;
  (ii) one part-time undergraduate student shall be considered one-third
of a full-time equivalent student;
  (iii) one part-time graduate student shall be considered one full-time
equivalent student; and
  (iv)  one  full-time graduate student shall be considered one and one-
half of a full-time equivalent student.
  c. Funds for the support of this program shall be appropriated to  the
department, except that funds for the state-operated institutions of the
state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city univer-
sity  of  New York, shall be appropriated to the state university of New
York out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to  the
credit  of the state purposes fund not otherwise appropriated, and funds
shall be appropriated to the city university of  New  York  out  of  any
moneys  in  the  state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the
local assistance fund not otherwise appropriated, and shall  be  subject
to  the  same  distribution  formula  as provided in paragraph b of this
subdivision.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.