Bill Text: NY S00617 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-08 - referred to election law [S00617 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00617-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           617

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  MYRIE,  HOYLMAN,  KRUEGER, MAY, SEPULVEDA -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Elections

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to mandatory training
          curriculum for election commissioners  and  key  staff  of  boards  of
          elections

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  3-213
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3-213.  Boards  of  elections;  mandatory  training  curriculum. 1.
     4  Election commissioners and such other board of  elections  employees  as
     5  determined by the state board of elections shall within six months after
     6  their  first  appointment complete a course of instruction on the opera-
     7  tion of a board of elections which shall be provided by the state  board
     8  of  elections. The curriculum shall be established by the state board of
     9  elections in consultation with  election  commissioners  and  shall  not
    10  exceed thirty hours of instruction.
    11    2.  Annually,  election  commissioners  and  other  board of elections
    12  employees as determined by the state board of elections, shall  complete
    13  before June first a continuing course of instruction on the operation of
    14  a  board  of  elections  which  shall  be provided by the state board of
    15  elections. The curriculum shall be established by  the  state  board  of
    16  elections  in consultation with the election commissioners and shall not
    17  exceed three hours of instruction.
    18    3. The state board of elections shall provide the training required by
    19  subdivision two of this section through, in addition to other methods it
    20  may choose, a web-based recorded format.
    21    4. Upon the failure of a commissioner or other  employee  to  complete
    22  the  instruction  within  the  time  required by this section, the state
    23  board of elections shall send a letter to the county legislature or city

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00376-01-3
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     1  council and the respective county party chair of the jurisdiction of the
     2  commissioner stating the delinquency.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed on or before such effective date.