Libraries

State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Libraries - Automated External Defibrillator Program (Raymono A. Russell Act) [HB-593]
Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a prominent area accessible to employees and library users, provide maintenance for the automated external defibrillator, and ensure a trained individual is present during a library's open hours; granting certain immunities to libraries and individuals under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems to make a certain report on the defibrillator program in libraries; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes First Reading Ways And Means on 01/23/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Libraries - State Library Resource Center - Funding [HB-597]
Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Jones First Reading Appropriations on 01/23/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

St. Mary's County - Public Facilities Bond [HB-561]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $71,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.

  

Sponsored by: No sponsors First Reading Appropriations on 01/23/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Approp: Operating Budget; Cap; Supp [HB-53]
An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government and for certain programs; capitalizing funds; amending appropriations; making supplemental appropriations; making reappropriations; making appropriations under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, from the constitutional budget reserve fund; and providing for an effective date.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Higher Education - Drug Detection Products - Distribution and Report [HB-552]
Requiring each institution of higher education to provide certain drug detection products to students at no charge; and altering a certain reporting requirement.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jazz Lewis First Reading Appropriations And Health And Government Operations on 01/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Carroll County - Public Facilities Bond [SB-416]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $36,900,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Hearing 2/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment [SB-378]
Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals to read aloud to their children by preparing a recording; and requiring the State Library Agency to submit a certain report on or before December 1, 2028.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington Hearing 2/12 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/23/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Libraries - Automated External Defibrillator Program (Raymono A. Russell Act) [SB-369]
Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a certain area, maintain the functionality of the automated external defibrillator, and ensure a trained individual is present under certain circumstances; granting certain immunities to libraries and individuals for certain acts or omissions under certain circumstances; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson Hearing 2/12 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/23/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Prince George's County - Public Middle and High Schools - Drug Detection Products PG 507-25 [HB-379]
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to provide, at no charge to the students, drink spiking detection products and drug detection strips to public middle and high school students in the county beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; and requiring that the detection devices provided by the Act be made available in school-based health clinics, school libraries, and school bathrooms.

  

Sponsored by: No sponsors Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment [HB-415]
Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals to read aloud to their children by preparing a recording; and requiring the State Library Agency to submit a certain report on or before December 1, 2028.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission [SB-358]
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 to the Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library; and requiring the Deaf Culture Digital Library to submit its annual operating budget to the State Library Agency on or before June 1 each year.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King Hearing 2/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2025

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

Schools; libraries; explicit materials; classification [SB-1090]
Schools; libraries; explicit materials; classification

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jake Hoffman Senate Read Second Time on 01/22/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to public library district boards of trustees. [SB-71]
Amend KRS 173.490 and 173.730 to allow a county judge/executive to appoint members to a public library board of trustees and fill vacancies with the approval of the fiscal court and without consultation with the previous board members or the Department for Libraries and Archives.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson Introduced In Senate on 01/09/2025

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2025 Regular Session

Revise and repeal certain provisions pertaining to the state library and State Library Board. [HB-1041]
Revise and repeal certain provisions pertaining to the state library and State Library Board.

  

Sponsored by: No sponsors Referred To House Education H.j. 105 on 01/23/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Human Services - Maryland Assistive Technology Program - Establishment [SB-208]
Establishing the Maryland Assistive Technology Program in the Department of Disabilities; providing the purpose of the Program is to increase access to assistive technology services and devices for individuals with disabilities, support the State's efforts to improve the provision of assistive technology to individuals with disabilities of all ages, including underrepresented populations, and ensure statewide access to assistive technology lending libraries; establishing the Assistive Technology Services Fund; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/14/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Individuals Experiencing Homelessness - Address Requirements - Prohibition [HB-254]
Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to provide a current address in certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Addison Hearing Canceled on 01/15/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Schools - Sexually Explicit Materials - Prohibited in Libraries and Media Centers [HB-282]
Prohibiting sexually explicit materials in elementary, middle, and secondary public school libraries and media centers; defining sexually explicit materials as books and auditory and visual material that contain graphic or obscene depictions of sexual activity that are not age-appropriate or used as part of the approved instructional materials for instruction on family life and human sexuality as part of a certain program; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Nino Mangione Hearing 1/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/09/2025

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State (North Carolina)
North Carolina 2023-2024 Session

Funds for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library [HB-964]
Funds for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Belk Passed 1st Reading on 05/02/2024

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2024 Regular Session

Provides relative to qualifications for library directors [HB-974]
Provides relative to qualifications for library directors

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Carlson Effective Date: 08/01/2024. on 06/11/2024

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2024 Regular Session

Provides relative to members of parish library boards of control [HB-946]
Provides relative to members of parish library boards of control

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jack Galle Involuntarily Deferred In Committee. on 05/01/2024

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