New York S 3028: Authorizes citizens who are sixteen years of age to vote in school district elections; repealer

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S03028 Summary:

BILL NOS03028 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02256-A

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Amd §§2012, 2502, 2553, 2603, 2018-a, 2018-b, 1951 & 2609, Ed L; rpld §5-210 sub 5 ¶(g), §5-500 sub 4 ¶p, amd
§§5-210, 5-500 & 5-507, El L

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Extends the right to vote in school district elections to qualified persons who are sixteen years of age.

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BILL NOS03028 

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01/23/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3028

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 23, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the election law, in relation to
 extending the right to vote in school district elections to qualified
 persons who are sixteen years of age; and to repeal certain provisions
 of the election law in relation thereto

 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 5. No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to vote at any such
 7 meeting or election, by reason of sex, who has the other qualifications
 8 required by this section; and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions
 9 of this section, no Indian [eighteen] sixteen years of age or over who,
 10 having been born in the United States to a member of an Indian tribe, or
 11 having been naturalized or otherwise acquired citizenship, shall have
 12 resided on an Indian reservation in the state for a period of thirty
 13 days next preceding the meeting or election at which [he] such person
 14 offers to vote or the spouse of such Indian shall be deemed ineligible
 15 to vote at any such meeting or election of the school district where the
 16 majority, as determined by the commissioner, of the Indian children of
 17 such reservation are being educated under a contract pursuant to subdi-
 18 vision two of section forty-one hundred one of this chapter, except that
 19 the 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.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06827-01-5

 S. 3028 2

 1 § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 2502 of the education law, as amended by
 2 chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
 3 7. No person shall be eligible to the office of member of the board of
 4 education who is not a qualified voter of the city school district and
 5 who has not been a resident of such district for a period of at least
 6 one year immediately preceding the date of [his or her] such person's
 7 election; provided, however, that no person shall hold at the same time
 8 the office of member of the board of education and any city office other
 9 than as a police officer and firefighter; provided, further, that where
 10 territory is added to a city school district by order of the commission-
 11 er pursuant to article thirty-one of this chapter, residence in the
 12 territory so added to the city school district shall be and shall be
 13 deemed to be residence in the city school district for the purposes of
 14 this subdivision, and a person qualified to vote in school district
 15 elections by virtue of [his or her] such person's residence in the
 16 territory so added to the city school district immediately prior to the
 17 addition of such territory to the city school district shall be and
 18 shall be deemed to be a qualified v