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NY S08514
Bill
Status
2/7/2024
Primary Sponsor
Jeremy Cooney
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AI Summary
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Establishes Dolly Parton's statewide library system of New York under the state librarian to provide free age-appropriate books monthly to children from birth to age five.
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Creates the Imagination Library of New York fund as a special revenue account to receive appropriations, grants, and donations to support the program.
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Requires the state librarian to allocate grants to qualified local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library affiliates that agree to dollar-for-dollar matching funds, with waiver authority available on a case-by-case basis for financial hardship.
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Directs the state librarian to promote local program development, recruit volunteers, solicit donations, develop marketing campaigns, and establish a feedback system to measure program impact and effectiveness.
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Requires annual reporting to the governor and legislature beginning January 1, 2029, including fund deposits and expenditures, number of local programs, enrollment figures, and books distributed.
Legislative Description
Directs the state librarian to establish statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the state librarian to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.
Last Action
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
3/20/2024