Bill Text: NY A00919 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 919

Bill Title: Makes commissioners full time employees of boards outside the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - print number 919b [A00919 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00919-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         919--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. JACOBSON, GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, SHRESTHA,
          McMAHON, DICKENS, BRONSON, BURKE, WALLACE, BURGOS, LAVINE -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Election Law --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
          tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
          said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to making commissioners
          full time employees of boards outside the city of New York

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  3-200 of the election law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    2. (a) Each board outside the city of New York shall  consist  of  two
     4  election  commissioners  who shall be full time employees of such board,
     5  except that the county legislative body of a county having a  population
     6  of  more  than  one  hundred  [and]  twenty  thousand may, by local law,
     7  increase the number of such commissioners to four, to  be  appointed  as
     8  provided in this title.
     9    (b) Each of the major political parties shall be eligible to recommend
    10  appointment of an equal number of commissioners.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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