NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6884

Senate Bill S6884

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing all libraries of public institutions of higher learning, the state library, and Indian libraries to be open to the public for providing census-related services

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 05, 2020	referred to libraries and education technology delivered to assembly passed senate
Feb 03, 2020	advanced to third reading
Jan 29, 2020	2nd report cal.
Jan 28, 2020	1st report cal.304
Jan 08, 2020	referred to education
Dec 04, 2019	referred to rules

Votes

- Feb 5, 2020 - Floor Vote
  S6884
  
  42
  
  Aye
  
  19
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Feb 5, 2020
      
      aye (42)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Harckham
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rivera
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Thomas
      
      nay (19)
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Borrello
      
      Boyle
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Griffo
      
      Helming
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Lanza
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Robach
      
      Serino
      
      Seward
      
      Tedisco
      
      excused (1)
      
      Breslin
  Jan 28, 2020 - Education Committee Vote
  S6884
  
  10
  
  Aye
  
  3
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Education Committee Vote: Jan 28, 2020
      
      aye (10)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Brooks
      
      Jackson
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Serrano
      
      Stavisky
      
      nay (3)
      
      Lanza
      
      Robach
      
      Seward
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      LaValle
      
      Little

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2019-S6884 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Libraries And Education Technology
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§249, 249-a & 262, Ed L

2019-S6884 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows all libraries of public institutions of higher learning, the state library, and Indian libraries to be open to the public for providing census-related services including the use of computers, secure internet access, census information services and translation services.

2019-S6884 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6884

SPONSOR: STAVISKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to allowing all libraries
of public institutions of higher learning, the state library, and Indian
libraries to be open to the public for providing census-related
services; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
tion thereof

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Requires public libraries to make their facilities and resources avail-
able to the public for the purpose of facilitating public participation
in the 2020 census.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends Section 249 of the Education Law by adding a new
subdivision 2, to require the state library to allow public access of

their facility and resources for census-related services.

Section 2. Amends Section 249-a of the Education Law, by adding a new
subdivision 2, to require all libraries of public institutions of higher
education permit access to the public to their facilities and resources,
at times determined by each institution, for purposes of census-related
services.

Section 3. Amends Section 262 of the Education Law by adding a new
subdivision 2, requiring that all public and Indian Libraries allow
public use of their facilities or resources, in relation to providing
census-related services.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Historically, many census tracts with high percentages of people of
color, renters, children under 5, people with limited English proficien-
cy, and impoverished people, are undercounted in the decennial census.
Serious consequences that arise from undercounts include diminished
congressional representation, inadequate federal funding, and the limi-
tation of critical state and federal programs. In addition to these
challenges, the 2020 Census will be the first census offered predomi-
nantly online. This digital manner of self-reporting may bring addi-
tional unprecedented issues in ensuring a complete and accurate count.

For these reasons, it should be a top priority of the legislature to
ensure all communities throughout the state are accurately counted with-
in the 2020 Census. To address self-reporting access, this legislation
would require libraries across the state to allow the public use of
library facilities and resources such as computers and secure internet
access, to accommodate self-reporting. Additionally, this legislation
allows the public use of library resources such as census information or
translation services, if provided, to help bolster self-reporting.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective immediately, and shall expire and be deemed repealed on Janu-
ary 1, 2021.  NEW YORK STATE SENATE

2019-S6884 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6884
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing all libraries
   of public institutions of higher  learning,  the  state  library,  and
   Indian libraries to be open to the public for providing census-related
   services; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
   tion thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 249 of the education law, as amended by chapter 261
 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   § 249. State library, when open; use of books. 1.  The  state  library
 shall be kept open at least eight hours each day on five days every week
 in the year except the legal holidays known as Independence day, Thanks-
 giving day and Christmas day. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the
 regents  from opening the state library on other days and times. Members
 of the legislature, judges of the court  of  appeals,  justices  of  the
 supreme court and heads of state departments may borrow from the library
 books  for  use in Albany, but shall be subject to such restrictions and
 penalties as may be prescribed by the regents for the safety or  greater
 usefulness  of  the  library.  Under  such  rules  and conditions as the
 regents may prescribe, the state library may lend its books and  printed
 material  for  a  limited  time  to  other  individuals and institutions
 conforming to said rules and conditions. Such service shall be  free  to
 residents  of  this state as far as practicable, but the regents may, in
 their discretion, charge a proper fee to nonresidents or for  assistance
 of  a personal nature or for other reason not properly an expense to the
 state, but which may be authorized for the accommodation of users of the
 library.
   2. THE STATE LIBRARY SHALL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC,  DURING  OPERATIONAL
 HOURS,   FOR  PURPOSES  OF  PROVIDING  THE  PUBLIC  WITH  CENSUS-RELATED
 SERVICES. CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED  TO,
 THE  USE  OF COMPUTERS, SECURE INTERNET ACCESS, AND TRANSLATION SERVICES
 IF SUCH SERVICES ARE PROVIDED.  THE STATE LIBRARY MAY  COORDINATE  THEIR

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14184-03-9

 S. 6884                             2
 
 CENSUS-RELATED  SERVICES  WITH  ANY  RELEVANT  STATE AGENCIES. THE STATE
 LIBRARY, IN A MANNER DETERMINED BY  SUCH  INSTITUTION,  SHALL  ADVERTISE
 THESE CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES WITHIN THEIR FACILITIES. ADVERTISING SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, DISPLAYING SIGNAGE, PROVIDING BROCHURES,
 AND  INCLUDING  INFORMATION  ON  CENSUS-RELATED  SERVICES IN ANY DIGITAL
 COMMUNICATIONS.
   § 2. Section 249-a of the education law, as added by chapter  1048  of
 the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
   § 249-a. Libraries  of public institutions of higher education; access
 and use. 1. The state university trustees and the board of higher educa-
 tion of the city of New York are hereby  authorized  to  establish  such
 rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  necessary  and appropriate to make
 provision for access and use by  the  residents  of  the  state  of  the
 libraries  and  library  facilities of the public institutions of higher
 education under their respective jurisdictions.
   2. ALL LIBRARIES OF PUBLIC  INSTITUTIONS  OF  HIGHER  EDUCATION  SHALL
 PERMIT  THE  PUBLIC  ACCESS, AT TIMES DETERMINED BY THE INSTITUTION, FOR
 PURPOSES OF PROVIDING  THE  PUBLIC  WITH  FREE  OF  COST  CENSUS-RELATED
 SERVICES.  CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
 THE USE OF COMPUTERS, SECURE INTERNET  ACCESS,  AND  CENSUS  INFORMATION
 SERVICES, IF PROVIDED. IN ADDITION, ALL LIBRARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
 OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHALL ALLOW THE PUBLIC SIMILAR ACCESS TO TRANSLATION
 SERVICES, AS AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS, IN A MANNER DETERMINED BY THE INSTI-
 TUTION.   LIBRARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY COOR-
 DINATE THEIR CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES WITH ANY RELEVANT  STATE  AGENCIES.
 LIBRARIES  OF  PUBLIC  INSTITUTIONS  OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHALL ADVERTISE
 THESE CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES  WITHIN  THEIR  FACILITIES,  IN  A  MANNER
 DETERMINED  BY  THE  INSTITUTION.  ADVERTISING SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
 LIMITED TO,  DISPLAYING  SIGNAGE,  PROVIDING  BROCHURES,  AND  INCLUDING
 INFORMATION ON CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES IN ANY DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS.
   §  3.  Section  262 of the education law, as amended by chapter 476 of
 the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   § 262. Use of public and Indian libraries.  1.  Every  library  estab-
 lished under section two hundred fifty-five of this [chapter] PART shall
 be  forever  free  to the inhabitants of the municipality or district or
 Indian reservation, which establishes it, subject always to rules of the
 library trustees who shall have authority  to  exclude  any  person  who
 wilfully  violates  such  rules; and the trustees may, under such condi-
 tions as they think expedient, extend the privileges of the  library  to
 persons  living outside such municipality or district or Indian reserva-
 tion.
   2. ALL PUBLIC AND INDIAN LIBRARIES SHALL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, DURING
 OPERATIONAL HOURS, FOR PURPOSES OF PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH  CENSUS-RE-
 LATED  SERVICES.    CENSUS-RELATED  SERVICES  SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
 LIMITED TO, THE USE OF COMPUTERS, SECURE  INTERNET  ACCESS,  TRANSLATION
 SERVICES, AND CENSUS INFORMATION SERVICES, IF PROVIDED. PUBLIC AND INDI-
 AN LIBRARIES MAY COORDINATE THEIR CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES WITH ANY RELE-
 VANT  STATE  AGENCIES. PUBLIC AND INDIAN LIBRARIES SHALL ADVERTISE THESE
 CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES WITHIN THEIR FACILITIES, IN A MANNER  DETERMINED
 BY  THE  INSTITUTION.  ADVERTISING SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
 DISPLAYING SIGNAGE, PROVIDING BROCHURES, AND  INCLUDING  INFORMATION  ON
 CENSUS-RELATED SERVICES IN ANY DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS.
   §  4.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed on January 1, 2021.

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