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Assembly Bill A10672

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to library cards for minors

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2023-A10672 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9352
Current Committee:
Assembly Libraries And Education Technology
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3205, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4478, S5989

2023-A10672 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the board of regents to establish a method by which a parent may request a library card for their minor on the school registration form.

2023-A10672 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10672
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 28, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Levenberg)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Libraries and  Education
   Technology
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to library cards issued
   to minors
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  3205 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. UPON REGISTRATION OF A MINOR TO ATTEND FULL TIME INSTRUCTION PURSU-
 ANT TO THIS SECTION, PARENTS SHALL CHECK A SPACE  ON  SUCH  REGISTRATION
 AUTHORIZING  SUCH  MINOR  TO  RECEIVE A LIBRARY CARD FROM THE RESPECTIVE
 LOCAL LIBRARY. THE REGENTS SHALL ESTABLISH A METHOD BY  WHICH  A  PARENT
 MAY  REQUEST  A  LIBRARY CARD FOR THEIR MINOR ON THE SCHOOL REGISTRATION
 FORM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15476-02-4

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