S 77: Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 77 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-b of section 2852 of the education law, as 2 added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: 3 5-b. If the board of regents returns a proposed charter to the charter 4 entity pursuant to the provisions of subdivision five-a of this section, 5 such charter entity shall reconsider the proposed charter, taking into 6 consideration the comments and recommendation of the board of regents. 7 Thereafter, the charter entity shall resubmit the proposed charter to 8 the board of regents with modifications, provided that the applicant 9 consents in writing to such modifications, [resubmit the proposed char- 10 ter to the board of regents without modifications,] or abandon the 11 proposed charter. The board of regents shall review each such resubmit- 12 ted proposed charter in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 13 five-a of this section[; provided, however, that it shall be the duty of 14 the board of regents to approve and issue a proposed charter resubmitted 15 by the charter entity described in paragraph (b) of subdivision three of 16 section twenty-eight hundred fifty-one of this article within thirty 17 days of the resubmission of such proposed charter or such proposed char- 18 ter shall be deemed approved and issued at the expiration of such peri- 19 od]. No resubmitted proposed charter shall be approved by the charter 20 entity unless all recommendations of the board of regents are made to 21 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 
 S. 77 2 1 charter shall not be approved if the board of regents recommends that 2 the charter be abandoned. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.