S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8885
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 26, 2024
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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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