STATE OF NEW YORK
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7186
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 the location
of a proposed charter school to be included in the charter application
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. [If the facilities to
7 be used by the proposed school are not known at the time the application
8 is submitted, the applicant shall notify the charter entity and, if
9 applicable, the board of regents within ten business days of acquiring
10 facilities for such school; provided, however, that the charter school
11 must obtain a certificate of occupancy for such facilities prior to the
12 date on which instruction is to commence at the school.]
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law and shall apply to any applications to establish a
15 charter school submitted to a charter entity on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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