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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Senate Bill S2974
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 37th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) 25th Senate District
(D, WF) 17th Senate District
(D) 30th Senate District
(D, WF) 59th Senate District
2023-S2974 (ACTIVE) - Details
2023-S2974 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2974 SPONSOR: MAYER TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to revision to charter schools PURPOSE: The bill limits a charter school grade level expansion to only those grade levels included in the type of school, such as an elementary school, intermediate school, middle school, junior high school or high school authorized in the existing charter. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 adds a new paragraph c to subsection 7 of section 2852 of the education law to stipulate that charter authorizers cannot approve char- ter revision requests submitted after June 1, 2023 to expand the grade levels served by a charter school that would expand beyond the charter school's current grade configurations.
2023-S2974 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2974 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 26, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAYER, BRISPORT, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, 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 revision to charter schools THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2852 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: (C) BEGINNING WITH PROPOSED REVISIONS SUBMITTED TO A CHARTER ENTITY AFTER JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE, A CHARTER SCHOOL MAY NOT SUBMIT A REVISION TO A CHARTER THAT WOULD EXPAND THE GRADES SERVED THAT WOULD CAUSE THE SCHOOL TO SERVE GRADES LEVELS IN MORE THAN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL CLASSIFICATIONS; ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, OR HIGH SCHOOL AS DEFINED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04506-01-3
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