Senate Bill S1100

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "open shelves act"

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S1100 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Libraries And Education Technology
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §254, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7677

2025-S1100 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Ensures that staff in libraries are able to curate collections, services, and programming that reflect the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.

2025-S1100 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1100 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1100
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. MAY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Libraries
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
   libraries  to  adopt  policies ensuring that library staff are able to
   curate collections, services, and  programming  that  reflect  diverse
   interests
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
 the "open shelves act".
   §  2.  Section  254 of the education law, as amended by chapter 718 of
 the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   § 254. Standards of library service. 1. The regents shall  have  power
 to  fix  standards of library service for every free association, public
 and hospital library or, with  the  advice  of  the  appropriate  tribal
 government  and library board of trustees, Indian library which receives
 any portion of  the  moneys  appropriated  by  the  state  to  aid  such
 libraries,  or  which  is supported in whole or in part by tax levied by
 any municipality or district. In the case of a  hospital  library  or  a
 library  serving  a  hospital,  such  standards  shall be established in
 consultation with the commissioner of health. If any such library  shall
 fail  to  comply  with  the regents requirements, such library shall not
 receive any portion of the moneys appropriated by the  state  for  free,
 hospital  or Indian libraries nor shall any tax be levied by any munici-
 pality or district for the support in whole or in part of such library.
   2. SUCH STANDARDS SHALL REQUIRE EVERY FREE  ASSOCIATION,  PUBLIC,  AND
 HOSPITAL  LIBRARY  OR, WITH THE ADVICE OF THE APPROPRIATE TRIBAL GOVERN-
 MENT AND LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, INDIAN LIBRARY, WHICH  RECEIVES  ANY
 PORTION  OF  THE MONEYS APPROPRIATED BY THE STATE TO AID SUCH LIBRARIES,
 TO ADOPT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT ENSURE LIBRARY STAFF ARE  ABLE  TO
 CURATE  AND  DEVELOP COLLECTIONS, SERVICES, AND PROGRAMMING THAT REFLECT
 THE INTERESTS OF ALL PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY THAT THE LIBRARY SERVES.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

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