Assembly Bill A6731

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   6731
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 11, 2025
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 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 and the closing paragraph of section 2012  of
 the  education  law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 115 of the laws
 of 1973 and the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 919 of the  laws
 of 1974, are amended to read as follows:
   2. [Eighteen] SIXTEEN years of age.
   No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to vote at any such meeting
 or election, by reason of sex, who has the other qualifications required
 by  this  section;  and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
 section, no Indian [eighteen] SIXTEEN years of age or over  who,  having
 been born in the United States to a member of an Indian tribe, or having
 been  naturalized  or otherwise acquired citizenship, shall have resided
 on an Indian reservation in the state for a period of thirty  days  next
 preceding  the  meeting  or election at which [he] SUCH PERSON offers to
 vote or the spouse of such Indian shall be deemed ineligible to vote  at
 any  such meeting or election of the school district where the majority,
 as determined by the commissioner, of the Indian children of such reser-
 vation are being educated under a contract pursuant to  subdivision  two
 of  section  forty-one  hundred  one  of  this  chapter, except that the
 parents or guardians of Indian children  of  such  reservation  who  are
 being  educated  in  the  schools  of a district other than the district
 which educates the majority of such children, shall be eligible to  vote
 only in the district where their children are being so educated.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 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.
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