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Assembly Bill A7795

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Enables public libraries to access employment preparation education (EPE) funds to provide adult literacy education

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2015-A7795 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2895
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S4100
2013-2014: S6714
2017-2018: A5811, S3021
2019-2020: A1667
2021-2022: A55
2023-2024: A7955
2025-2026: A3738

2015-A7795 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enables public libraries to access employment preparation education (EPE) funds to provide adult literacy education; sets aside three million dollars to be awarded through a competitive grant process; provides that half of such appropriation shall be set aside for libraries serving a population of one million or more.

2015-A7795 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7795

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Libraries and Education Technology

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to enabling public
  libraries to access employment preparation education  (EPE)  funds  to
  provide adult literacy instruction

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 3602  of  the  education  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph a-2 to read as follows:
  A-2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVI-
SION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  SET  ASIDE  AN  AMOUNT  OF  THREE  MILLION
DOLLARS  TO  BE  AWARDED  THROUGH  A COMPETITIVE GRANT PROCESS TO PUBLIC
LIBRARIES TO PROVIDE ANY OF THE SERVICES AUTHORIZED IN THIS SUBDIVISION.
HOWEVER, NO LESS THAN HALF THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION SHALL BE  SET  ASIDE
FOR  PUBLIC  LIBRARIES  SERVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. THE
COMMISSIONER SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS
TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08531-01-5

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