Florida Senate - 2023 SB 726 By Senator Rodriguez 40-00613-23 2023726__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to library cooperative funding; 3 amending s. 257.42, F.S.; revising the funding source 4 for a library cooperative from a grant provided by the 5 state to an appropriation from the state; deleting a 6 limitation on the funding a library cooperative is 7 eligible to receive; providing an effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1.Section 257.42, Florida Statutes, is amended to 12 read: 13 257.42Library cooperative program grants.The 14 administrative unit of a library cooperative is eligible to 15 receive an annual appropriation grant from the state of not more 16 than $400,000 for the purpose of sharing library resources based 17 upon an annual plan of service and expenditure and an annually 18 updated 5-year, long-range plan of cooperative library resource 19 sharing. Those plans, which must include a component describing 20 how the cooperative will share technology and the use of 21 technology, must be submitted to the division of Library and 22 Information Services of the Department of State for evaluation 23 and possible recommendation for funding in the divisions 24 legislative budget request. Program Grant funds may not be used 25 to supplant local funds or other funds. A library cooperative 26 must provide from local sources matching cash funds equal to 10 27 percent of the appropriation grant award. 28 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.