Bill Text: NY S01395 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01395 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01395-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1395

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  CLEARE,  JACKSON, MANNION -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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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