New York A 1588: Requires access to new homes by persons with disabilities

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A01588 Summary:

BILL NOA01588 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06628

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SPONSORSimon

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COSPNSRForrest, Epstein, Gonzalez-Rojas, Cunningham, Walker, Alvarez, Zaccaro, Davila, Reyes, Shimsky,
 Simone, Burdick, Sayegh, Rosenthal, Raga, Steck, Meeks, Rozic, Stern, Levenberg, Kelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Rpld §2853 sub 3 ¶(e) sub¶¶ 4 & 5, amd §§2853 & 2854, Ed L

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Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility; prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.

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BILL NOA01588 

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01/10/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1588

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, FORREST, EPSTEIN, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, CUNNING-
 HAM, WALKER, ALVAREZ, ZACCARO, DAVILA, REYES, SHIMSKY, SIMONE,
 BURDICK, SAYEGH, ROSENTHAL, RAGA, STECK, MEEKS, ROZIC, STERN, LEVEN-
 BERG, KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reimbursing charter
 schools for leasing certain facilities, and prohibiting charter school
 employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement; and to
 repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section
 2 2853 of the education law, as added by section 5 of part BB of chapter
 3 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, within
 5 the later of (i) five months after a charter school's written request
 6 for co-location and (ii) thirty days after the charter school's charter
 7 is approved by its charter entity, the city school district shall
 8 either: (A) offer at no cost to the charter school a co-location site in
 9 a public school building approved by the board of education as provided
 10 by law, or (B) offer the charter school space in a privately owned or
 11 other publicly owned facility at the expense of [the city school
 12 district and at no cost to] the charter school. The city school district
 13 shall not reimburse a charter school which rents or leases space in a
 14 private facility. The space must be reasonable, appropriate and compara-
 15 ble and in the community school district to be served by the charter
 16 school and otherwise in reasonable proximity.
 17 § 2. Subparagraphs 4 and 5 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of
 18 section 2853 of the education law are REPEALED and subparagraph 6 of
 19 such paragraph is renumbered subparagraph 4.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04701-01-5

 A. 1588 2

 1 § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 of section 2853 of the education
 2 law, as added by chapter 101 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, in a city
 5 school district in a city having a population of one million or more
 6 inhabitants, the chancellor must first authorize in writing any proposed
 7 capital improvements or facility upgrades in excess of five thousand
 8 dollars, regardless of the source of funding, made to accommodate the
 9 co-location of a charter school within a public school building. For any
 10 such improvements or upgrades that have been approved by the chancellor,
 11 capital improvements or facility upgrades shall be made in an amount
 12 equal to the expenditure of the charter school for each non-charter
 13 public school within the public school building. For any capital
 14 improvements or facility upgrades in excess of five thousand dollars
 15 that have been approved by the chancellor, regardless of the source of
 16 funding, made in a charter school that is already co-located within a
 17 public school building, matching capit