Requires a traffic study that evaluates the potential impact of the proposed charter school on traffic patterns, safety and congestion in the surrounding area as part of an application to establish a charter school.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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669
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 requiring a traffic
study as part of an application to establish a charter school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 2 of section 2851 of the
2 education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (j) Information regarding the facilities to be used by the school,
5 including the location of the school, if known, and the means by which
6 pupils will be transported to and from the school. Such information
7 shall include a traffic study that evaluates the potential impact of the
8 proposed charter school on traffic patterns, safety and congestion in
9 the surrounding area. If the facilities to be used by the proposed
10 school are not known at the time the application is submitted, the
11 applicant shall notify the charter entity and, if applicable, the board
12 of regents within ten business days of acquiring facilities for such
13 school and such traffic study required pursuant to this paragraph must
14 be submitted prior to approval of an application; provided, however,
15 that the charter school must obtain a certificate of occupancy for such
16 facilities prior to the date on which instruction is to commence at the
17 school.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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