S8630 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Requires each board of education to adopt a written policy for reconsideration of school library materials and make such policy available on its website; requires such policies to include provisions for the creation of a reconsideration committee to review complaints regarding school library materials; requires the commissioner of education to develop one or more model policies for school districts.
- Title
- Enacts the "freedom to read act"
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Passed Assembly
- Latest action date
- 2026-06-04
- Introduced
- 2025-12-22
- Active version
- S8630C
- Same as
- A9537
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
- Brian Kavanagh State Senator, District 27
- Erik Bottcher State Senator, District 47
Heard in committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee
- Education NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A9537 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Substituted for
- A9537 (2025-26 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.
- Education, 2026-05-19 First reading