Senate Bill S77

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools

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  • 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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2025-S77 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2852, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7666
2023-2024: S1395

2025-S77 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools.

2025-S77 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    77
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  CLEARE,  GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
   JACKSON, 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 providing the Board of
   Regents  with  final  approval authority over all proposed and renewed
   charter schools
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5-b of section 2852 of the education law, as
 added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
   5-b. If the board of regents returns a proposed charter to the charter
 entity pursuant to the provisions of subdivision five-a of this section,
 such charter entity shall reconsider the proposed charter,  taking  into
 consideration  the  comments and recommendation of the board of regents.
 Thereafter, the charter entity shall resubmit the  proposed  charter  to
 the  board  of  regents  with modifications, provided that the applicant
 consents in writing to such modifications, [resubmit the proposed  char-
 ter  to  the  board  of  regents  without modifications,] or abandon the
 proposed charter. The board of regents shall review each such  resubmit-
 ted  proposed  charter  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision
 five-a of this section[; provided, however, that it shall be the duty of
 the board of regents to approve and issue a proposed charter resubmitted
 by the charter entity described in paragraph (b) of subdivision three of
 section twenty-eight hundred fifty-one of  this  article  within  thirty
 days of the resubmission of such proposed charter or such proposed char-
 ter  shall be deemed approved and issued at the expiration of such peri-
 od]. NO RESUBMITTED PROPOSED CHARTER SHALL BE APPROVED  BY  THE  CHARTER
 ENTITY  UNLESS  ALL  RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS ARE MADE TO
 THE SATISFACTION OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS IN  SUCH  RESUBMISSION.    SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00533-01-5

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