Bill Text: NY S04659 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain procedures for charter school students facing suspension; makes such procedures consistent with other schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S04659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04659-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4659

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  certain
          procedures for charter school students facing suspension

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision  2  of  section  2854  of  the
     2  education  law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (d) A student may withdraw from a  charter  school  at  any  time  and
     5  enroll  in a public school. A charter school may refuse admission to any
     6  student who has been expelled or suspended from a  public  school  until
     7  the  period  of  suspension  or  expulsion  from  the  public school has
     8  expired, consistent with the requirements of due process.  A student may
     9  only  be  suspended  from  a  charter  school  in  accordance  with  the
    10  provisions  of  subdivision three of section thirty-two hundred fourteen
    11  of this chapter.
    12    (i) The terms "superintendent", "superintendent of schools", "district
    13  superintendent of schools" or "community  superintendent",  as  used  in
    14  subdivision  three  of section thirty-two hundred fourteen of this chap-
    15  ter, as they relate to charter schools shall mean the chairperson of the
    16  board of trustees of the charter school.
    17    (ii) The terms "board of education" or "board" as used in  subdivision
    18  three  of  section  thirty-two hundred fourteen of this chapter, as they
    19  relate to charter schools, shall mean the board of trustees of the char-
    20  ter school.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08716-01-3