Bill Text: NY A01258 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-04 - print number 1258a [A01258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01258-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1258--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HUNTER,  RAMOS,  WOERNER,  ZINERMAN, PAULIN,
          GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, ARDILA, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA,  McMAHON,
          KELLES  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --
          recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assem-
          bly Rule 3, sec. 2 --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to establishing minimum
          staffing levels for local board of elections

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3-300  of the election law is amended to read as
     2  follows:
     3    § 3-300. Board employees; appointment. 1.  Every  board  of  elections
     4  shall  appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine tech-
     5  nicians, custodians and other employees,  fix  their  number,  prescribe
     6  their  duties,  fix  their  titles and rank and establish their salaries
     7  within the amounts appropriated therefor by the local  legislative  body
     8  and  shall  secure  in  the  appointment  of  employees  of the board of
     9  elections equal representation of the major political parties.
    10     2. Every board of elections shall employ, at  a  minimum,  four  full
    11  time  employees  in addition to the appointed commissioners, within four
    12  years of the effective date of this subdivision; provided, however, that
    13  every board of elections shall employ at least two full  time  employees
    14  within two years of the effective date of this subdivision.  Every board
    15  of elections shall employ two additional employees for every full allot-
    16  ment  of  twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand
    17  active registered voters.
    18    3. Every commissioner in each board of elections  except  for  commis-
    19  sioners  of  the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve
    20  and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish his title and  prescribe  his
    21  duties. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall
     2  be  to  supervise  the  operations  of  the board of elections under the
     3  supervision of such board.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.