Assembly Bill A8885

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A8885 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2012, Ed L

2023-A8885 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers.

2023-A8885 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8885
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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 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 deter-
 mined  by  the  commissioner, of the Indian children of such reservation
 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.
                                                            LBD13708-01-3

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