Bill Text: NY S00669 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a traffic study that evaluates the potential impact of the proposed charter school on traffic patterns, safety and congestion in the surrounding area as part of an application to establish a charter school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00669-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           669

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        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  requiring  a  traffic
          study as part of an application to establish a charter school

          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.  Such  information
     7  shall include a traffic study that evaluates the potential impact of the
     8  proposed  charter  school  on traffic patterns, safety and congestion in
     9  the surrounding area. If the facilities  to  be  used  by  the  proposed
    10  school  are  not  known  at  the  time the application is submitted, the
    11  applicant shall notify the charter entity and, if applicable, the  board
    12  of  regents  within  ten  business days of acquiring facilities for such
    13  school and such traffic study required pursuant to this  paragraph  must
    14  be  submitted  prior  to  approval of an application; provided, however,
    15  that the charter school must obtain a certificate of occupancy for  such
    16  facilities  prior to the date on which instruction is to commence at the
    17  school.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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