Senate Bill S8459

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to reimbursing charter schools for leasing certain facilities, and prohibition of non-disclosure agreements; repealer

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Archive: Last 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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2021-S8459 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §2853 sub 3 ¶(e) sub¶¶ 4 & 5, amd §§2853 & 2854, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5461

2021-S8459 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility, and prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.

2021-S8459 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8459 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8459
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2022
                                ___________
 
 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  reimbursing  charter
   schools for leasing certain facilities, and prohibiting charter school
   employee  contracts  from including a non-disclosure agreement; 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. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section
 2853  of  the education law, as added by section 5 of part BB of chapter
 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, within
 the later of (i) five months after a charter  school's  written  request
 for  co-location and (ii) thirty days after the charter school's charter
 is approved by its  charter  entity,  the  city  school  district  shall
 either: (A) offer at no cost to the charter school a co-location site in
 a  public school building approved by the board of education as provided
 by law, or (B) offer the charter school space in a  privately  owned  or
 other  publicly  owned  facility  at  the  expense  of  [the city school
 district and at no cost to] the charter school. THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
 SHALL NOT REIMBURSE A CHARTER SCHOOL WHICH RENTS OR LEASES  SPACE  IN  A
 PRIVATE FACILITY. The space must be reasonable, appropriate and compara-
 ble  and  in  the  community school district to be served by the charter
 school and otherwise in reasonable proximity.
   § 2. Subparagraphs 4 and 5  of  paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision  3  of
 section  2853  of  the  education law are REPEALED and subparagraph 6 of
 such paragraph is renumbered subparagraph 4.
   § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 of section 2853 of  the  education
 law,  as added by chapter 101 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (d) Notwithstanding any other provision to the  contrary,  in  a  city
 school  district  in  a  city having a population of one million or more
 inhabitants, the chancellor must first authorize in writing any proposed
 capital improvements or facility upgrades in  excess  of  five  thousand
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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