Chapter 56

BUDGET: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the Public Protection and General Government Budget for the 2009-2010 state fiscal year. These include eligibility of public and association libraries for local government consolidation initiatives and language related to capital funds for public library construction grants.

Chapter 57

BUDGET: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the Education, Labor & Family Assistance Budget for the 2009-2010 state fiscal year, including state aid for libraries and library systems.

Chapter 53

BUDGET: Appropriation language relating to the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Budget for the 2009-2010 state fiscal year including state aid for libraries and library systems.

Chapter 321

Sponsors: Canestrari/McDonald - Extends the term during which the Troy public library district may be established by three years.

Chapter 74

Sponsors: Silver/ Stewart-Cousins - Enacts the New York Government Reorganization and Citizen Empowerment Act, which provides mechanisms for voluntary consolidation or dissolution of local government entities, including library districts, in order to improve the delivery of services to the public.

Chapter 26

Sponsors: Bradley/ C. Johnson - Provides that if a public body has the ability, it must post notices of place and time of public meetings on its website. This provision impacts all entities subject to open meetings law, including public and association libraries, and public library systems.