A 6731: Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers from 18 to 16.

  
  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