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                                   3430
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to the salaries of
   certain teachers and aides employed by boards  of  cooperative  educa-
   tional services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the  educa-
 tion  law,  as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
 read as follows:
   b. The cost of services herein referred to shall be the  amount  allo-
 cated  to  each  component  school  district by the board of cooperative
 educational  services  to  defray  expenses  of  such  board,  including
 approved  expenses from the testing of potable water systems of occupied
 school buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant  to
 section  eleven  hundred ten of the public health law provided that such
 expenses for testing of potable water systems are not reimbursable  from
 another  state  or  federal  source, except that that part of the salary
 paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the board  of  cooper-
 ative  educational  services  which is, (I) FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 FIVE--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX SCHOOL YEAR  AND  PRIOR  SCHOOL  YEARS  in
 excess of thirty thousand dollars, (II) FOR AID PAYABLE IN THE TWO THOU-
 SAND  TWENTY-SIX--TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-SEVEN  SCHOOL  YEAR IN EXCESS OF
 FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, (III) FOR AID PAYABLE IN THE TWO THOUSAND  TWEN-
 TY-SEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT SCHOOL YEAR IN EXCESS OF FIFTY THOU-
 SAND DOLLARS, AND (IV) FOR AID PAYABLE IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT-
 -TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER, IN EXCESS OF SIXTY
 THOUSAND DOLLARS, shall not be such an approved expense, and except also
 that  administrative  and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent
 of the total expenses for purposes of  this  computation.    Any  gifts,
 donations  or  interest  earned  by the board of cooperative educational
 services or on behalf of the board of cooperative  educational  services
 by  the dormitory authority or any other source shall not be deducted in
 determining the cost of services  allocated  to  each  component  school
 
              

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 district.  Any payments made to a component school district by the board
 of cooperative educational services pursuant to  subdivision  eleven  of
 section  six-p  of the general municipal law attributable to an approved
 cost  of service computed pursuant to this subdivision shall be deducted
 from the cost of services allocated to such component  school  district.
 The  expense  of  transportation  provided  by  the board of cooperative
 educational services pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision four of this
 section shall be eligible for aid apportioned  pursuant  to  subdivision
 seven  of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter and no board of
 cooperative educational services  transportation  expense  shall  be  an
 approved cost of services for the computation of aid under this subdivi-
 sion.    Transportation  expense  pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision
 four of this section shall be included in the  computation  of  the  ten
 percent limitation on administrative and clerical expenses.
   §  2.  Paragraph  b of subdivision 10 of section 3602 of the education
 law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57  of  the  laws  of
 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  Aid  for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city
 school districts and other school districts which were not components of
 a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for  pupils
 in  grades  [ten]  NINE through twelve in attendance in career education
 programs as such programs are defined by the commissioner,  subject  for
 the  purposes  of  this paragraph to the approval of the director of the
 budget, an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying  the
 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars] FOUR
 THOUSAND  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS.   Such aid will be payable for weighted
 pupils attending  career  education  programs  operated  by  the  school
 district and for weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts
 with  boards of cooperative educational services to attend career educa-
 tion programs operated by a board of cooperative  educational  services.
 Weighted pupils for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of
 the attendance of students in grades [ten] NINE through twelve in career
 education  sequences  in  trade,  industrial, technical, agricultural or
 health programs plus the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied by the
 attendance of students in grades [ten] NINE  through  twelve  in  career
 education  sequences in business and marketing as defined by the commis-
 sioner in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be  computed
 by  subtracting  from one the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine
 percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be  expressed
 as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than
 thirty-six percent.
   Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
 be  required  to use such amount to support career education programs in
 the current year.
   A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current  or  a
 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
 support  of career education programs were continued at a level equal to
 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in  the
 preceding school year.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
 calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career  education  payable  in  the
 2025-2026 school year and years thereafter.