STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6882 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requirements for applications for charter schools 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 2852 of the 2 education law, as amended by section 4-a of part A of chapter 56 of the 3 laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows: 4 (d) in a school district where the total enrollment of resident 5 students attending charter schools in the base year is greater than five 6 percent of the total public school enrollment of the school district in 7 the base year (i) granting the application would have a significant 8 educational benefit to the students expected to attend the proposed 9 charter school [or] and (ii) the school district or in a city having a 10 population of one million or more inhabitants, the community school 11 district in which the charter school will be located consents to such 12 application; and 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01377-01-5