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Assembly Bill A6590

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the qualification of voters

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2025-A6590 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3231
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 2 §1, Constn

2025-A6590 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the qualification of voters; provides that a citizen who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.

2025-A6590 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6590
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 2 of the constitution, in
   relation to the qualifications of voters
 
   Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 1 of  article
 2 of the constitution shall be amended to read as follows:
   Section  1.  Every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election
 for all officers elected by the people and upon all questions  submitted
 to  the  vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years
 of age or over and shall have been a resident of this state, and of  the
 county,  city,  or  village  for thirty days next preceding an election;
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT A CITIZEN WHO IS SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE AT   THE
 TIME  OF A PRIMARY ELECTION AND WHO WILL BE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AT THE
 TIME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION FOR WHICH SUCH PRIMARY  ELECTION  IS  HELD,
 SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN SUCH PRIMARY ELECTION.
   § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing  be  referred
 to  the  first  regular  legislative  session  convening  after the next
 succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conform-
 ity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for 3
 months previous to the time of such election.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD89058-01-5

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