S6350 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
- Title
- Enacts the freedom to read act
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-05-30
- In committee
- Education
- Introduced
- 2023-04-17
- Active version
- S6350B
- Same as
- A6873
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Education NY State Assembly committee
- Libraries NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A6873 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Libraries, 2024-05-22 First reading
- Rules, 2023-06-06 Third reading