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                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 5, 2013
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Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Libraries and Education Technology

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,
  (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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (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  THIRTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND  FOURTEEN,  SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND
FOURTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN, EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
EACH INSTITUTION IN  FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND
SIXTEEN,  TEN  THOUSAND  DOLLARS FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO
THOUSAND SIXTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, 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  THIRTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND
FOURTEEN.  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.