STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3430 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2022, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 b. The cost of services herein referred to shall be the amount allo- 5 cated to each component school district by the board of cooperative 6 educational services to defray expenses of such board, including 7 approved expenses from the testing of potable water systems of occupied 8 school buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant to 9 section eleven hundred ten of the public health law provided that such 10 expenses for testing of potable water systems are not reimbursable from 11 another state or federal source, except that that part of the salary 12 paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the board of cooper- 13 ative educational services which is, (i) for the two thousand twenty- 14 five--two thousand twenty-six school year and prior school years in 15 excess of thirty thousand dollars, (ii) for aid payable in the two thou- 16 sand twenty-six--two thousand twenty-seven school year in excess of 17 forty thousand dollars, (iii) for aid payable in the two thousand twen- 18 ty-seven--two thousand twenty-eight school year in excess of fifty thou- 19 sand dollars, and (iv) for aid payable in the two thousand twenty-eight- 20 -two thousand twenty-nine school year and thereafter, in excess of sixty 21 thousand dollars, shall not be such an approved expense, and except also 22 that administrative and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent 23 of the total expenses for purposes of this computation. Any gifts, 24 donations or interest earned by the board of cooperative educational 25 services or on behalf of the board of cooperative educational services 26 by the dormitory authority or any other source shall not be deducted in 27 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. LBD01336-01-5
A. 3430 2 1 district. Any payments made to a component school district by the board 2 of cooperative educational services pursuant to subdivision eleven of 3 section six-p of the general municipal law attributable to an approved 4 cost of service computed pursuant to this subdivision shall be deducted 5 from the cost of services allocated to such component school district. 6 The expense of transportation provided by the board of cooperative 7 educational services pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision four of this 8 section shall be eligible for aid apportioned pursuant to subdivision 9 seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter and no board of 10 cooperative educational services transportation expense shall be an 11 approved cost of services for the computation of aid under this subdivi- 12 sion. Transportation expense pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision 13 four of this section shall be included in the computation of the ten 14 percent limitation on administrative and clerical expenses. 15 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602 of the education 16 law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 17 2007, is amended to read as follows: 18 b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city 19 school districts and other school districts which were not components of 20 a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils 21 in grades [ten] nine through twelve in attendance in career education 22 programs as such programs are defined by the commissioner, subject for 23 the purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the 24 budget, an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying the 25 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars] four 26 thousand one hundred dollars. Such aid will be payable for weighted 27 pupils attending career education programs operated by the school 28 district and for weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts 29 with boards of cooperative educational services to attend career educa- 30 tion programs operated by a board of cooperative educational services. 31 Weighted pupils for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of 32 the attendance of students in grades [ten] nine through twelve in career 33 education sequences in trade, industrial, technical, agricultural or 34 health programs plus the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied by the 35 attendance of students in grades [ten] nine through twelve in career 36 education sequences in business and marketing as defined by the commis- 37 sioner in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be computed 38 by subtracting from one the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine 39 percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed 40 as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than 41 thirty-six percent. 42 Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall 43 be required to use such amount to support career education programs in 44 the current year. 45 A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined 46 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year 47 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi- 48 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a 49 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive 50 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in 51 support of career education programs were continued at a level equal to 52 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the 53 preceding school year. 54 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the 55 calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career education payable in the 56 2025-2026 school year and years thereafter.