A 662: Requires the location of a proposed charter school be included in the charter application.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 662 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the location of a proposed charter school to be included in the charter application The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 2 of section 2851 of the 2 education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (j) Information regarding the facilities to be used by the school, 5 including the location of the school, [if known,] and the means by which 6 pupils will be transported to and from the school. [If the facilities to 7 be used by the proposed school are not known at the time the application 8 is submitted, the applicant shall notify the charter entity and, if 9 applicable, the board of regents within ten business days of acquiring 10 facilities for such school; provided, however, that the charter school 11 must obtain a certificate of occupancy for such facilities prior to the 12 date on which instruction is to commence at the school.] 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law and shall apply to any applications to establish a 15 charter school submitted to a charter entity on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02601-01-5