STATE OF NEW YORK
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6731
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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:
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
