N.Y. Educ. Law § 1008
Any appropriation made to carry out the provisions of this article, in addition to any moneys allotted to the state for a similar purpose by the government of the United States may be used for the payment of salaries, travel, maintenance and operation, and other administrative expenses including the purchase of necessary office furniture, supplies, et cetera, the necessary costs for persons being evaluated for or undergoing vocational rehabilitation including tuition, fees, books and other training supplies, maintenance and traveling expenses, occupational examinations and license fees, medical, psychiatric and psychological examinations and other diagnostic and related services, tools and equipment, initial stocks and supplies, surgical fees, hospitalization, therapeutic treatment and prosthetic appliances, the establishment and construction of public and other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities to provide services for handicapped individuals and the establishment and construction of public and other nonprofit workshops for the severely handicapped, including the furnishing of equipment or the providing of grants of funds to such public and other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities and workshops to be utilized for the acquisition of equipment, supplies, personnel and other necessary and proper items to be utilized in such facilities.
N.Y. Educ. Law § 1008