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Assembly Bill A7480

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Clarifies that five year charters for charter schools comprise five instructional years

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2009-A7480 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง2851 & 2853, Ed L

2009-A7480 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies that five year charters for charter schools comprise five instructional years.

2009-A7480 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7480

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 9, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to clarifying that five-
  year charters for charter schools comprise five instructional years

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (p)  of  subdivision  2 of section 2851 of the
education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended  to
read as follows:
  (p)  The  term  of  the  proposed charter, which shall not exceed five
years IN WHICH INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED TO PUPILS.
  S 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2853 of  the  education
law,  as  added  by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
follows:
  (a) Upon the approval of a charter by the board of regents, the  board
of  regents  shall incorporate the charter school as an education corpo-
ration for a term not to exceed  five  years  IN  WHICH  INSTRUCTION  IS
PROVIDED  TO PUPILS.  Such certificate of incorporation shall not modify
or limit any terms of the charter approved by the board of regents. Upon
approval of an application to renew a  charter,  the  board  of  regents
shall  extend  the certificate of incorporation for a term not to exceed
five years IN WHICH INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED TO PUPILS. Upon  termination
or  nonrenewal  of  the  charter of a charter school pursuant to section
twenty-eight hundred fifty-five of  this  article,  the  certificate  of
incorporation  of  the  charter  school shall be revoked by the board of
regents pursuant to  section  two  hundred  nineteen  of  this  chapter,
provided  that  compliance  with  the notice and hearing requirements of
such section twenty-eight hundred fifty-five of this  article  shall  be
deemed  to  satisfy  the notice and hearing requirements of such section
two hundred nineteen. It shall be the duty of the trustees of the  char-
ter  school  to  obtain federal tax-exempt status no later than one year

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10996-01-9

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