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Senate Bill S6338

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases the cap on the total number of charter schools in the state to four hundred

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2009-S6338 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9394
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2852, Ed L

2009-S6338 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the cap on the total number of charter schools in the state to four hundred.

2009-S6338 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6338 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6338

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            December 11, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. SMITH, C. JOHNSON, ESPADA -- read twice and ordered
  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the cap  on
  the total number of charter schools in the state to four hundred

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2852  of  the  education  law,  as
amended  by  section 2 of part D-2 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is
amended to read as follows:
  9. The total number of charters issued pursuant to this article  shall
not  exceed [two] FOUR hundred. [One] TWO hundred of such charters shall
be issued on the recommendation of the charter entity described in para-
graph (b) of subdivision three of section twenty-eight hundred fifty-one
of this article, and [one] TWO hundred of such charters shall be  issued
on  the recommendation of the other charter entities set forth in subdi-
vision three of section twenty-eight hundred fifty-one of this  article,
provided  that  up  to fifty of the additional charters authorized to be
issued by [the] chapter FIFTY-SEVEN of the laws of  two  thousand  seven
[which  amended  this  subdivision  effective  July  first, two thousand
seven] shall be reserved for a city school district of a city  having  a
population  of one million or more. The failure of any body to issue the
regulations authorized pursuant  to  this  article  shall  not  [effect]
AFFECT  the  authority  of  a charter entity to propose a charter to the
board of regents or the board of regents' authority to grant such  char-
ter.  A  conversion  of an existing public school to a charter school or
the renewal or extension of a charter shall not be  counted  toward  the
numerical limits established by this subdivision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15022-01-9

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