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Bill Aug 28, 2026

Creates Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program

Directs the office of children and family services to establish Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, to develop a love of reading and learning; directs the office of children and family services to promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment; recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; solicit donations, gifts, and other funding to financially support local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library programs; develop community engagement; develop, promote, and coordinate a public awareness campaign to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the affiliate programs and make the public aware of the opportunity to register eligible children to receive books through the program; administer the local match requirement and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing; and develop statewide marketing and communication plans; establishes the imagination library of New York fund.

https://openstates.org/ny/bills/2025-2026/S3154/
Jeremy Cooney State Senator Joe Addabbo State Senator Cosponsor April Baskin State Senator Cosponsor Erik Bottcher State Senator Cosponsor Cordell Cleare State Senator Cosponsor Leroy Comrie State Senator Cosponsor Pat Fahy State Senator Cosponsor Kristen Gonzalez State Senator Cosponsor Michelle Hinchey State Senator Cosponsor Robert Jackson State Senator Cosponsor John Liu State Senator Cosponsor Monica Martinez State Senator Cosponsor Rachel May State Senator Cosponsor Shelley Mayer State Senator Cosponsor Zellnor Myrie State Senator Cosponsor Kevin Parker State Senator Cosponsor Roxanne Persaud State Senator Cosponsor Chris Ryan State Senator Cosponsor Julia Salazar State Senator Cosponsor Jessica Scarcella-Spanton State Senator Cosponsor Jose Serrano State Senator Cosponsor James Skoufis State Senator Cosponsor Lea Webb State Senator Cosponsor Jeremy Zellner State Senator Cosponsor Toby Stavisky State Senator Cosponsor
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