Bill Text: NY A04777 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A04777 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04777-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A04777 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04777-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4777 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the terms of office of election commissioners The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-202 of the election law is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 1. The term of office of an election commissioner shall be [two] four 4 years beginning January first of each odd numbered year [except that in5the city of New York and the county of Schenectady the term shall be6four years beginning on January first of each alternate odd numbered7year. The county legislative body of any other county may determine that8the commissioners of elections thereafter appointed shall serve for a9term of four years. Such determination may be rescinded by a subsequent10action of the county legislative body which shall take effect at the11expiration of the terms of the commissioners then in office]. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 13 elections occurring on and after November 1, 2023. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09469-01-3