STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 596 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BOYLE, CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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. LBD05402-01-7