Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary This bill requires each public library established by a county, city, or town to adopt a materials reconsideration policy that provides a process by which a legal resident of the county where the library is located may request that the library withdraw an item from the library's collection or reclassify or move the item to a different area in the library. As used in this bill, an "item" includes a physical book, electronic book, magazine, audio recording, digital resource, and game. Such policy must meet all of the following criteria: Allow for an item in the library's collection, whether circulated internally for in-library use only or circulated externally for use outside of the library, to be subject to a request for reconsideration. Utilize a materials reconsideration application form developed by the respective library administrator to request reconsideration of an item ("application"). Allow a legal resident of the county in which the library is located to request that the library withdraw, move, or reclassify an item from the library's collection. Require an application submitted by a resident to a library to be sent to the applicable library board ("board") within seven days of receipt of the application. Within 90 days of receipt of an application, the board must respond with the library's decision. Require that the board approve the action that a library takes in response to each application. Provide that all decisions of the board concerning an item are final and that the decision as to an item will remain in effect for a specified time period that does not exceed 30 months and establish that the board must not consider an application for an item for which such a decision is in effect. However, the board may reconsider the item on the board's own mo
