New York Senate Bill S04063 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4063--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MANNION, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Libraries -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting publishers from limiting the number of copies of e-books available at public libraries The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 338 to read as follows: 3 § 338. E-books. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following 4 terms shall have the following meanings: 5 a. "E-book" shall mean a book published in or converted to digital 6 format for display on a computer screen or handheld electronic device. 7 b. "Public library" shall mean a library, other than a professional, 8 technical or public school library, established for free public purposes 9 by official action of a municipality or district or the legislature, 10 where the whole interests belong to the public, or any other library 11 maintained for the benefit and free use on equal terms of all the people 12 of the community in which such library is located. 13 2. No person, partnership, limited partnership, unincorporated joint- 14 stock association, or corporation publishing a book for sale in New York 15 state in an e-book format shall, in any way, limit the number of copies 16 of such e-book which may be made available for rental at any public 17 library in New York state. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07788-02-3