New York A 6731: Relates to the minimum age to vote at school district meetings

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A06731 Summary:

BILL NOA06731 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSimone

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2012, Ed L

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Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers from 18 to 16.

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BILL NOA06731 

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03/11/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6731

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 11, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the minimum age to
 vote at school district meetings or for election of school district
 officers

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 and the closing paragraph of section 2012 of
 2 the education law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 115 of the laws
 3 of 1973 and the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 919 of the laws
 4 of 1974, are amended to read as follows:
 5 2. [Eighteen] Sixteen years of age.
 6 No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to vote at any such meeting
 7 or election, by reason of sex, who has the other qualifications required
 8 by this section; and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
 9 section, no Indian [eighteen] sixteen years of age or over who, having
 10 been born in the United States to a member of an Indian tribe, or having
 11 been naturalized or otherwise acquired citizenship, shall have resided
 12 on an Indian reservation in the state for a period of thirty days next
 13 preceding the meeting or election at which [he] such person offers to
 14 vote or the spouse of such Indian shall be deemed ineligible to vote at
 15 any such meeting or election of the school district where the majority,
 16 as determined by the commissioner, of the Indian children of such reser-
 17 vation are being educated under a contract pursuant to subdivision two
 18 of section forty-one hundred one of this chapter, except that the
 19 parents or guardians of Indian children of such reservation who are
 20 being educated in the schools of a district other than the district
 21 which educates the majority of such children, shall be eligible to vote
 22 only in the district where their children are being so educated.
 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 24 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06299-01-5

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