NY State Senate Bill 2023-S6938

Senate Bill S6938

Signed By Governor

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to grant awards for conservation and preservation of library research materials

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Current Bill Status Via A7246 - Signed by Governor

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- In Committee Assembly
- 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
Oct 25, 2023	signed chap.578
Oct 13, 2023	delivered to governor
Jun 07, 2023	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1216 substituted for s6938a
Jun 07, 2023	substituted by a7246
May 30, 2023	advanced to third reading amended (t) 6938a
May 24, 2023	2nd report cal.
May 23, 2023	1st report cal.1216
May 16, 2023	referred to libraries

Votes

- Jun 7, 2023 - Floor Vote
  A7246
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 7, 2023
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Ashby
      
      Bailey
      
      Borrello
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brouk
      
      Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick
      
      Chu
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martinez
      
      Martins
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Murray
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rhoads
      
      Rivera
      
      Rolison
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Walczyk
      
      Webb
      
      Weber
      
      Weik
      
      excused (2)
      
      Cooney
      
      Felder
  May 23, 2023 - Libraries Committee Vote
  S6938
  
  7
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Libraries Committee Vote: May 23, 2023
      
      aye (7)
      
      Brisport
      
      Chu
      
      Mannion
      
      Murray
      
      Ryan
      
      Serrano
      
      Tedisco

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2023-S6938 - Details

Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §273, Ed L

2023-S6938 - Summary

Relates to changing the time for calculating amounts for awards of grants to support preservation and/or conservation of library research materials from being calculated for each state fiscal year, to each academic year.

2023-S6938 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6938

SPONSOR: CHU
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to grant awards for
conservation and preservation of library research materials

 
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:

The proposed legislation would provide for the administration of grant
awards for conservation and preservation of library research materials
during a school year, rather than a state fiscal year.

 
SUMMARY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE BILL:

Section 1 of the bill would amend Education Law § 273(6) to require that
grant awards for conservation and preservation of library research mate-
rials be administered during a "school year", rather than a "state
fiscal year". Education § 2(15) defines the term "school year" as "the
period commencing on the first day of July in each year and ending on
the thirtieth day of June next following."

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL:

Education Law § 273(6) requires that each fiscal year the Commissioner
award an annual formal grant of $158,000 to certain comprehensive
research libraries for a program of conservation and/or preservation of
library research materials. All of the comprehensive research libraries
that receive such grant operate on an academic fiscal year.  Some of
these institutions, such as the State University of New York at Albany
library, have their grant funds frozen from April first until they
receive their approval for the next program year in July.  As a result,
such libraries lose the first three months of possible spending and
continue to spend previous year's grant funding which has been carried
over, which complicates their grant application and reporting. Aligning
this grant funding schedule with the academic fiscal year will allow a
greater period for these libraries to spend their awards and simplify
their applications and reporting.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect immediately.

2023-S6938 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6938
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. CHU -- (at request of the State Education Department)
   -- 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 grant awards for
   conservation and preservation of library research materials

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs a and c of subdivision 6 of section 273 of the
 education law, as amended by chapter  563  of  the  laws  of  2021,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   a.  The commissioner shall award in any [state fiscal] SCHOOL year, an
 annual formula grant of one hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars  for  a
 program  of conservation and/or preservation of library research materi-
 als to each of the following comprehensive research libraries:  Columbia
 university  libraries,  Cornell  university  libraries,  New  York state
 library,  New  York  university  libraries,  university   of   Rochester
 libraries,  Syracuse university libraries, the research libraries of the
 New York public library, state university of New York at Albany library,
 state university of New York at Binghamton library, state university  of
 New  York  at Buffalo library, and state university of New York at Stony
 Brook library.
   c. Other agencies and libraries, as defined in regulations promulgated
 by the commissioner, which are not eligible for funding under  paragraph
 a  of  this  subdivision,  may  receive separate grants the sum of which
 shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars  in  any  [state  fiscal]
 SCHOOL  year  to  support the preservation and/or conservation of unique
 library research materials. Such agencies  and  libraries  shall  submit
 project proposals. Approval of such project proposals, and determination
 of  funding level, shall be based upon, but not limited to, factors such
 as:  the research value of materials to be preserved  and/or  conserved;
 appropriateness  of  conservation and preservation techniques in accord-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09167-01-3

 S. 6938                             2
 
 ance with  statewide  planning  and  national  standards;  institutional
 capacity for successful completion of the project, including facilities,
 experience,  and  technical expertise; availability of staff with appro-
 priate  training  and  expertise; contribution of the institution to the
 project in matching funds and staff resources; and the volume of  inter-
 library  lending and access to holdings by the public. Ninety percent of
 each such grant shall be payable upon approval by the department and the
 remaining ten percent shall be payable upon project completion.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S6938A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §273, Ed L

2023-S6938A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2023-S6938A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6938A

SPONSOR: CHU
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the award of grants to
support preservation and/or conservation of library research materials

 
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:

The proposed legislation would provide for the administration of grant
awards for conservation and preservation of library research materials
during an academic year, rather than a state fiscal year.

 
SUMMARY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE BILL:

Section 1 of the bill would amend Education Law § 273(6) to require that
grant awards for conservation and preservation of library research mate-
rials be administered during an "academic year", rather than a "state
fiscal year".

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL:

Education Law § 273(6) requires that each fiscal year the Commissioner
award an annual formal grant of $158,000 to certain comprehensive
research libraries for a program of conservation and/or preservation of
library research materials. All of the comprehensive research libraries
that receive such grant operate on an academic fiscal year.  Some of
these institutions, such as the State University of New York at Albany
library, have their grant funds frozen from April first until they
receive their approval for the next program year in July.  As a result,
such libraries lose the first three months of possible spending and
continue to spend previous year's grant funding which has been carried
over, which complicates their grant application and reporting. Aligning
this grant funding schedule with the academic fiscal year will allow a
greater period for these libraries to spend their awards and simplify
their applications and reporting.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect immediately.
 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennifer Trowbridge Office of Governmental Relations Education Building
89 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12234
(518) 486-5644 Respectfully submitted,
Daniel Morton-Bentley Counsel and Deputy Commissioner For Legal Affairs
State Education Department
May 15, 2023

2023-S6938A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6938--A
     Cal. No. 1216
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. CHU -- (at request of the State Education Department)
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the  Committee on Libraries -- reported favorably from said committee,
   ordered to first and second report, amended on second report,  ordered
   to  a  third  reading,  and  to be reprinted as amended, retaining its
   place in the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the award of grants to
   support preservation and/or conservation of library research materials
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs a and c of subdivision 6 of section 273 of the
 education law, as amended by chapter  563  of  the  laws  of  2021,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   a.  The  commissioner shall award in any [state fiscal] ACADEMIC year,
 an annual formula grant of one hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars  for
 a  program of conservation and/or preservation of library research mate-
 rials to each of the following comprehensive research libraries:  Colum-
 bia  university  libraries, Cornell university libraries, New York state
 library,  New  York  university  libraries,  university   of   Rochester
 libraries,  Syracuse university libraries, the research libraries of the
 New York public library, state university of New York at Albany library,
 state university of New York at Binghamton library, state university  of
 New  York  at Buffalo library, and state university of New York at Stony
 Brook library.
   c. Other agencies and libraries, as defined in regulations promulgated
 by the commissioner, which are not eligible for funding under  paragraph
 a  of  this  subdivision,  may  receive separate grants the sum of which
 shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars  in  any  [state  fiscal]
 ACADEMIC  year to support the preservation and/or conservation of unique
 library research materials. Such agencies  and  libraries  shall  submit
 project proposals. Approval of such project proposals, and determination
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD09167-04-3
 S. 6938--A                          2
 
 of  funding level, shall be based upon, but not limited to, factors such
 as:  the research value of materials to be preserved  and/or  conserved;
 appropriateness  of  conservation and preservation techniques in accord-
 ance  with  statewide  planning  and  national  standards; institutional
 capacity for successful completion of the project, including facilities,
 experience, and technical expertise; availability of staff  with  appro-
 priate  training  and  expertise; contribution of the institution to the
 project in matching funds and staff resources; and the volume of  inter-
 library  lending and access to holdings by the public. Ninety percent of
 each such grant shall be payable upon approval by the department and the
 remaining ten percent shall be payable upon project completion.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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