STATE OF NEW YORK
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2191
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the cost effectiveness
of tangible equipment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the educa-
2 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 6 to read as follows:
3 (6) Cost effectiveness of tangible equipment. Notwithstanding any
4 other provision of this section to the contrary, expenditures incurred
5 by component school districts in compliance with the general municipal
6 law, pursuant to purchase and/or installation contracts entered into on
7 or after January fifteenth, two thousand, for equipment including but
8 not limited to furniture, bulletin boards, tangible instructional mate-
9 rials and classroom aids, shall be an acceptable expense for BOCES aid
10 if the component school district demonstrates the purchase would be more
11 cost-effective than would otherwise be possible if such services were to
12 be purchased without the consideration of BOCES aid.
13 § 2. The commissioner shall promulgate rules, regulations and stand-
14 ards to implement the provisions of this act.
15 § 3. 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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