OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS Legislative Office Building, Room 5200 Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200 http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa sSB-229 AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROCESS BY WHICH A CHARTER IS GRANTED AND FUNDING IS PROVIDED FOR A NEW CHARTER SCHOOL. AMENDMENT LCO No.: 6353 File Copy No.: 647 Senate Calendar No.: 460 Primary Analyst: SB 5/3/22 Contributing Analyst(s): (FN) OFA Fiscal Note See Fiscal Note Details The amendment strikes the underlying bill and its associated fiscal impact. The amendment makes various procedural changes to the charter school approval process, including requiring any initial certifications that still are not charters schools to receive an appropriation to become a charter. This could result in increased costs to the State Department of Education, the cost would be dependent upon the number of charter seat requiring an appropriation. The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any specific department.