Bill Text: NY A04502 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4502

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04502 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04502-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4502

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing the Board of
          Regents with final approval authority over all  proposed  and  renewed
          charter schools

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5-b of section 2852 of the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
     3    5-b. If the board of regents returns a proposed charter to the charter
     4  entity pursuant to the provisions of subdivision five-a of this section,
     5  such  charter  entity shall reconsider the proposed charter, taking into
     6  consideration the comments and recommendation of the board  of  regents.
     7  Thereafter,  the  charter  entity shall resubmit the proposed charter to
     8  the board of regents with modifications,  provided  that  the  applicant
     9  consents  in writing to such modifications, [resubmit the proposed char-
    10  ter to the board of  regents  without  modifications,]  or  abandon  the
    11  proposed  charter. The board of regents shall review each such resubmit-
    12  ted proposed charter in accordance with the  provisions  of  subdivision
    13  five-a of this section[; provided, however, that it shall be the duty of
    14  the board of regents to approve and issue a proposed charter resubmitted
    15  by the charter entity described in paragraph (b) of subdivision three of
    16  section  twenty-eight  hundred  fifty-one  of this article within thirty
    17  days of the resubmission of such proposed charter or such proposed char-
    18  ter shall be deemed approved and issued at the expiration of such  peri-
    19  od].  No  resubmitted  proposed charter shall be approved by the charter
    20  entity unless all recommendations of the board of regents  are  made  to
    21  the  satisfaction  of  the  board of regents in such resubmission.  Such
    22  charter shall not be approved if the board of  regents  recommends  that
    23  the charter be abandoned.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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