New York A 85: Relates to rental assistance for New York city charter school students; metered in funding

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A00085 Summary:

BILL NOA00085 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05797

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Relates to metered in funding for rental assistance for all New York city charter students.

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BILL NOA00085 

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01/08/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 85

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to metered in funding for
 rental assistance for all New York city charter students

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 2853 of the
 2 education law, as added by section 5 of part BB of chapter 56 of the
 3 laws of 2014, subparagraphs 5 and 6 as amended by section 11 of part A
 4 of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, and clause (B) of subparagraph 5 as
 5 amended by section 5 of part YYY of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is
 6 amended to read as follows:
 7 (e) In a city school district in a city having a population of one
 8 million or more inhabitants, charter schools that [first commence
 9 instruction or that require additional space due to an expansion of
 10 grade level, pursuant to this article, approved by their charter entity
 11 for the two thousand fourteen--two thousand fifteen school year or ther-
 12 eafter and] request co-location in a public school building shall be
 13 provided access to facilities pursuant to this paragraph for such char-
 14 ter schools that first commence instruction or that require additional
 15 space due to an expansion of grade level, pursuant to this article,
 16 approved by their charter entity for those grades newly provided.
 17 (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, within
 18 the later of (i) five months after a charter school's written request
 19 for co-location and (ii) thirty days after the charter school's charter
 20 is approved by its charter entity, the city school district shall
 21 either: (A) offer at no cost to the charter school a co-location site in
 22 a public school building approved by the board of education as provided
 23 by law, or (B) offer the charter school space in a privately owned or
 24 other publicly owned facility at the expense of the city school district

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00526-01-5

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 1 and at no cost to the charter school. The space must be reasonable,
 2 appropriate and comparable and in the community school district to be
 3 served by the charter school and otherwise in reasonable proximity.
 4 (2) No later than thirty days after approval by the board of education
 5 or expiration of the offer period prescribed in subparagraph one of this
 6 paragraph, the charter school shall either accept the city school
 7 district's offer or appeal in accordance with subparagraph three of this
 8 paragraph. If no appeal is taken, the city's offer or refusal to make an
 9 offer shall be final and non-reviewable. The charter school may appeal
 10 as early as issuance of an educational impact statement for the proposed
 11 co-location.
 12 (3) The charter school shall have the option of appealing the city
 13 school district's offer or failure to offer a co-location site through
 14 binding arbitration in accordance with subparagraph [seven] six of this
 15 paragraph, an expedited appeal to the commissioner pursuant to section
 16 three hundred ten of this chapter and the procedures prescribed in para-
 17 graph (a-5) of this subdivision, or a special proceeding pursuant to
 18 article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules. In any such
 19 appeal, the standard of review shall be the standard prescribed in
 20 section seventy-eight hundred three of the civil practice law and rules.
 21 (4) If the appeal results in