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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. QUART, LAVINE, GOODELL, LUPARDO -- Multi-Spon-
   sored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, SOLAGES -- 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.
   § 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01375-01-1

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 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 TWENTY-ONE--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO, SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FIVE  DOLLARS  FOR  EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-TWO--TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-THREE,  EIGHT  THOUSAND  SIX   HUNDRED
 DOLLARS  FOR EACH INSTITUTION IN FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE--
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR, TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH  INSTITUTION  IN
 FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, 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 TWENTY-ONE--TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-TWO.  THEREAFTER THE RATE SHALL BE SET AT THE LEVEL OF THE PREVI-
 OUS 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.