New York A 6227: Relates to removing citizenship as a qualification for holding public office

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A06227 Summary:

BILL NOA06227 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSimone

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COSPNSRForrest, Gallagher, Gonzalez-Rojas, Mitaynes

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3, Pub Off L

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Removes citizenship as a qualification for holding public office in this state unless required by law.

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BILL NOA06227 

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02/27/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6227

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE, FORREST, GALLAGHER, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
 MITAYNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
 Operations

 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to deleting the
 citizenship requirement for holding civil office

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
 2 amended by chapter 251 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
 5 at the time [he or she] they shall be chosen thereto, have attained the
 6 age of eighteen years, except that in the case of youth boards, youth
 7 commissions, recreation commissions, or community boards in the city of
 8 New York only, members of such boards or commissions may be under the
 9 age of eighteen years, but must have attained the age of sixteen years
 10 on or before appointment to such youth board, youth commission, recre-
 11 ation commission, or community board in the city of New York, be [a
 12 citizen of the United States,] a resident of the state, and if it be a
 13 local office, a resident of the political subdivision or municipal
 14 corporation of the state for which [he or she] they shall be chosen, or
 15 within which the electors electing [him or her] them reside, or within
 16 which [his or her] their official functions are required to be exer-
 17 cised, or who shall have been or shall be convicted of a violation of
 18 the selective draft act of the United States, enacted May eighteenth,
 19 nineteen hundred seventeen, or the acts amendatory or supplemental ther-
 20 eto, or of the federal selective training and service act of nineteen
 21 hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
 22 Where any other law imposes additional criteria for holding any civil
 23 office, those criteria shall apply to that office in addition to the
 24 requirements of this section.
 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01412-01-5

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