Appropriates $5,550,000 for the purpose of establishing and expanding training programs for direct support professionals at boards of cooperative educational services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2340
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT making an appropriation for the purpose of establishing and
expanding training programs for direct support professionals at boards
of cooperative educational services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The sum of five million five hundred and fifty thousand
2 dollars ($5,550,000) is hereby appropriated to the state education
3 department out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund
4 to the credit of the local assistance account, not otherwise appropri-
5 ated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of establishing
6 and expanding training programs for direct support professionals at
7 boards of cooperative educational services. Such moneys shall be payable
8 on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
9 approved by the commissioner of the state education department in the
10 manner prescribed by law.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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