New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04680

Introduced
2/11/25  

Caption

Requires school boards to make the final decision on whether to keep, remove, or restrict access to an instructional material in a school library; establishes a review process for formal complaints concerning instructional materials that are the subject of complaints.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

NY S07766

Requires school boards to make the final decision on whether to keep, remove, or restrict access to an instructional material in a school library; establishes a review process for formal complaints concerning instructional materials that are the subject of complaints.

NY A08828

Requires school boards to make the final decision on whether to keep, remove, or restrict access to an instructional material in a school library; establishes a review process for formal complaints concerning instructional materials that are the subject of complaints.

NY A07835

Requires each district school board of education to publish on its website a list of all instructional materials, including those used to provide instruction and to provide notice to parents of their rights to attend school board meetings, access all educational learning materials and make objection to learning materials they find objectionable; requires the commissioner of education to promulgate model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes explicit content.

NY S05986

Includes digital materials within school library materials.

NY A06807

Includes digital materials within school library materials.

NY A08870

Prohibits libraries and library systems, including school libraries and school library systems from banning books or other materials based on partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

NY S09324

Prohibits libraries and library systems, including school libraries and school library systems from banning books or other materials based on partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

NY S06868

Protects library access to electronic literary materials by prohibiting certain restrictive provisions in contracts between publishers and libraries.

NY A10544

Protects library access to electronic literary materials by prohibiting certain restrictive provisions in contracts between publishers and libraries.

NY A07878

Prohibits the banning of books or other materials by libraries or library systems; provides that no library or library system shall receive state aid unless such entity adopts the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights that indicates materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval or develops a written statement prohibiting the practice of banning books or other materials.

Similar Bills

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