Bill Text: NY A00919 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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. LBD02147-07-4