2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4210 - Aid for Blind or Deaf Students.

§ 4210. Aid for blind or deaf students. 1. a. Whenever a blind or deaf
  person,  who  is  a  citizen  of  this  state  and  a  student in actual
  attendance at a college, university, technical or  professional  school,
  including  agriculture  and technical institutes and state institutes of
  applied arts and sciences, located in this state and authorized  by  law
  to  grant  degrees,  or  licensed  private  career schools as defined in
  article one hundred one of this title and located in this  state,  other
  than an institution established for the regular instruction of the blind
  or  deaf, shall be designated by the trustees thereof as a fit person to
  receive the aid hereinafter provided for, there shall  be  paid  by  the
  state  for  the  use  of  such student a sum not to exceed four thousand
  dollars per annum, subject to terms and  conditions  prescribed  by  the
  commissioner  in  regulations and within the limits of the appropriation
  therefor, with which to provide such  students  with  support  to  read,
  including  the  employment of persons to read to such student and/or the
  purchase of technology to assist the student in reading from  text-books
  and  pamphlets  in  his  or  her  studies at such college, university or
  school, or to  aid  such  student,  in  receiving  instruction  in  such
  studies.
b.  The  trustees  of any institution meeting the requirements of this
  section shall  submit  reports  in  such  form  and  at  such  times  as
  prescribed  by  the  commissioner  identifying  the  number  of students
  eligible to receive aid pursuant to this subdivision and shall  estimate
  the  funds  needed  to  support  such  students  as provided herein. The
  commissioner shall advance twice during the school  year  to  each  such
  institution  such  estimated  amounts  within  the  limits of the annual
  appropriation provided therefore.
c. At the conclusion of the academic year for  which  such  funds  are
  provided,  each institution receiving funds pursuant to this subdivision
  shall submit to the commissioner a final accounting for the use of  such
  funds  and  any  additional  reporting  requirements  prescribed  by the
  commissioner in regulations and shall return any unspent funds.
2. Such moneys shall be paid annually,  after  the  beginning  of  the
  school  year  of  such  institution, by the commissioner of taxation and
  finance on the warrant of the comptroller,  to  the  treasurer  of  such
  institution,  on  his presenting an account showing the actual number of
  blind or deaf students matriculated and attending the institution, which
  account shall be verified  by  the  president  of  the  institution  and
  accompanied  by  his  certificate that the trustees have recommended the
  students named in said account as hereinbefore provided.
3. The trustees of any of the said  institutions  shall  recommend  no
  blind  or deaf person, who is not regularly matriculated, and who is not
  in good and regular standing, and who is not working for a  degree  from
  the institution in which he or she is matriculated; and no blind or deaf
  person  shall  be  recommended,  who  is  not  doing  the work regularly
  prescribed by the institution for the degree for which he or  she  is  a
  candidate. The moneys so paid to any such institution shall be disbursed
  for  the  purposes  aforesaid by and under the direction of its board of
  trustees.
4. Funds appropriated in  the  two  thousand  seventeen--two  thousand
  eighteen   academic  year  and  thereafter  for  the  purposes  of  this
  initiative shall be allocated on a first-come, first serve  basis  based
  on  the  order  of  applications  received  by  the  commissioner,  in a
  timeframe and manner prescribed by the commissioner in regulations.
5. Funds allocated pursuant  to  this  section  shall  supplement  not
  supplant  any aid provided and/or devices currently used by the college,
  university, technical or professional school, including agriculture  and
  technical  institutes  and state institutes of applied arts and sciences

  or licensed private career schools as defined in article one hundred one
  of this title, for the purposes of this section.