STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5986--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CHU, MAY -- 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 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. LBD10431-02-3