New York S 3587: Establishes the rural suicide prevention council

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S03587 Summary:

BILL NOS03587 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBORRELLO

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3, rpld §3 various subs, Pub Off L

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Removes the residency requirement for all public office positions employed by a county; provides that counties shall have the authority to determine residency requirements for each county job on a county by county basis.

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BILL NOS03587 

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01/28/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3587

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
 ment Operations

 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the residency
 requirement for public office in counties in the state; 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. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3 of the public officers
 2 law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 251 of the laws of 2014 and
 3 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 1004 of the laws of 1966, are
 4 amended and a new subdivision 1-b is added to read as follows:
 5 1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
 6 at the time [he or she] such person shall be chosen thereto, have
 7 attained the age of eighteen years, except that in the case of youth
 8 boards, youth commissions, recreation commissions, or community boards
 9 in the city of New York only, members of such boards or commissions may
 10 be under the age of eighteen years, but must have attained the age of
 11 sixteen years on or before appointment to such youth board, youth
 12 commission, recreation commission, or community board in the city of New
 13 York, be a citizen of the United States, a resident of the state, and if
 14 it be a local office other than a public office position employed by a
 15 county, a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation
 16 of the state for which [he or she] such person shall be chosen, or with-
 17 in which the electors electing [him or her] such person reside, or with-
 18 in which [his or her] such person's official functions are required to
 19 be exercised, or who shall have been or shall be convicted of a
 20 violation of the selective draft act of the United States, enacted May
 21 eighteenth, nineteen hundred seventeen, or the acts amendatory or
 22 supplemental thereto, or of the federal selective training and service

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08058-01-5

 S. 3587 2

 1 act of nineteen hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof or supple-
 2 mental thereto.
 3 1-b. Neither the provisions of this section or of any general, special
 4 or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
 5 requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or
 6 municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall be chosen
 7 or within which such person's official functions are required to be
 8 exercised, shall apply to the appointment of a person to any county
 9 public office employment position, and each county in the state shall
 10 set forth residency requirements for county positions on an individual
 11 basis.
 12 2. Neither the provisions of this section or of any general, special
 13 or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
 14 requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or
 15 municipal corporation of the state for which [he] such person shall be
 16 chosen or within which [his] such person's official functions are
 17 required to be exercised, shall apply to the appointment of a person as
 18 a member of the police force of any political subdivision or municipal
 19 corporation of the s