Senate Bill S1028

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Removes the board of trustees of the state university of New York as a charter entity; repealer

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S1028 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3979
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2851, 2852, 2853, 2855 & 2857, rpld §2851 sub 5, §355 sub 2-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5734, A7848
2021-2022: S1973, A3621

2023-S1028 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the board of trustees of the state university of New York as a charter entity.

2023-S1028 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1028 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1028
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. JACKSON, MANNION, RAMOS, SALAZAR -- 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 charter entities; and
   to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 2851 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 101 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  An  applicant shall submit the application to a charter entity for
 approval. For purposes of this article, a charter entity shall be:
   (a) The board of education of a school district eligible for an appor-
 tionment of aid under subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two
 of this chapter, provided that a board of education shall not approve an
 application for a school to be operated outside  the  school  district's
 geographic boundaries and further provided that in a city having a popu-
 lation  of  one  million or more, the chancellor of any such city school
 district shall be the charter entity established by this paragraph; OR
   (b) [The board of trustees of the state university of New York; or
   (c)] The board of regents.
   The board of regents shall be the only entity authorized  to  issue  a
 charter  pursuant to this article. Notwithstanding any provision of this
 subdivision to the contrary, an application for  the  conversion  of  an
 existing  public  school  to a charter school shall be submitted to, and
 may only be approved by, the charter entity set forth in  paragraph  (a)
 of  this subdivision. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the
 contrary, any such application for conversion shall be  consistent  with
 this  section but shall not be subject to the process pursuant to subdi-
 vision nine-a of section twenty-eight hundred fifty-two of this article,
 and the charter entity shall require that the parents or guardians of  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03529-01-3
              

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