Bill Text: NY A00962 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A00962 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00962-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 962 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, ASHBY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting election commissioners and deputy elections commissioners from holding a publicly elected office The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3-200 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 195 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. No person [shall be] appointed as election commissioner or deputy 5 election commissioner shall continue to hold office who is not a regis- 6 tered voter in the county and not an enrolled member of the party recom- 7 mending his or her appointment, or who is the chair of the respective 8 democratic or republican party or committee in such county or who holds 9 any other public office, except that of commissioner of deeds, notary 10 public, [village officer, city or town justice,] member of a community 11 board within the city of New York or trustee or officer of a school 12 district outside of a city; provided, however, that the provision of 13 this subdivision prohibiting an election commissioner or deputy election 14 commissioner from continuing to hold office who is the chair of the 15 respective democratic or republican party or committee in such county 16 shall not apply to any person currently serving as election commissioner 17 or deputy election commissioner. 18 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 3-200 of the election law is amended to 19 read as follows: 20 6. An election commissioner or deputy election commissioner shall not 21 be a candidate for any elective office which he or she would not be 22 entitled to hold under the provisions of this article, unless he or she 23 has ceased by resignation or otherwise, to be commissioner or deputy 24 commissioner prior to his or her nomination or designation therefor. 25 Otherwise such nomination or designation shall be null and void. 26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04552-01-9