STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6807 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to digital materials The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 711 of the education law, as 2 amended by section 2 of part A-1 of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. School library materials, for the purposes of this article shall 5 mean [both] digital materials, audio/visual materials and printed mate- 6 rials that may or may not require magnification which meet all of the 7 following criteria: (1) materials which are catalogued and processed as 8 part of the school library or media center for use by elementary and/or 9 secondary school children and teachers; (2) materials which with reason- 10 able care and use may be expected to last more than one year; and (3) 11 materials which would not be eligible for aid pursuant to sections seven 12 hundred one and seven hundred fifty-one of this title. School library 13 materials meeting these criteria may include (i) hard cover [and], 14 paperback books and e-books, periodicals, that is, print and digital 15 publications which are subscription-based and appear at regular inter- 16 vals of less than one year on a continuing basis for an indefinite peri- 17 od, documents other than books, pamphlets, musical scores, other 18 printed, digital and published materials, [and] (ii) for school year 19 nineteen hundred eighty-six--eighty-seven and thereafter, audio/visual 20 materials including films, film strips, micro-film, sound recordings, 21 processed slides, transparencies, kinescopes, video tapes, maps, charts, 22 globes, pictorial works, including pictures and picture sets, reprod- 23 uctions, photographs, graphic works, and any other audio/visual materi- 24 als of a similar nature made. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10431-03-3