Bill Text: NY A09596 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the boards of trustees of SUNY and CUNY to adopt policies requiring institutions thereof to grant course credit to students who serve as election inspectors, poll clerks, or election coordinators.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-26 - referred to higher education [A09596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09596-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9596

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 26, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  requiring  SUNY  and
          CUNY  institutions  to  award  course  credit to students who serve as
          election inspectors, poll clerks or election coordinators

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

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22.  The  state  university  trustees  shall, in consultation with the
     4  state board of elections and the New York city board of elections, adopt
     5  a policy requiring that each institution of the state university of  New
     6  York  grant  course  credit to each student enrolled in such institution
     7  for such student's service as an  election  inspector,  poll  clerk,  or
     8  election  coordinator  pursuant  to  title  four of article three of the
     9  election law. Such policy shall, at a minimum, require each  institution
    10  to  coordinate  with  appropriate county boards of elections and the New
    11  York city board of elections to establish  verification  procedures  for
    12  students claiming credit under this subdivision, including the provision
    13  by  the appropriate board of elections to the institution of the certif-
    14  icate furnished to the board pursuant to subdivision  three  of  section
    15  3-420  of the election law, and such other proof as the state university
    16  trustees, in consultation with the state board of elections and the  New
    17  York city board of elections, shall deem appropriate.
    18    §  2.  Section  6206  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    19  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
    20    22. The board of trustees shall, in consultation with the state  board
    21  of  elections  and  the New York city board of elections, adopt a policy
    22  requiring that each institution of the city university of New York grant
    23  course credit to each student enrolled  in  such  institution  for  such
    24  student's  service  as  an  election  inspector, poll clerk, or election
    25  coordinator pursuant to title four of article three of the election law.
    26  Such policy shall, at a minimum, require each institution to  coordinate
    27  with  the  appropriate  county boards of elections and the New York city

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  board of elections to establish  verification  procedures  for  students
     2  claiming  credit  under this subdivision, including the provision by the
     3  appropriate board of elections to the  institution  of  the  certificate
     4  furnished  to  the  board pursuant to section 3-420 of the election law,
     5  and such other proof as the board of trustees, in consultation with  the
     6  state board of elections and the New York city board of elections, shall
     7  deem appropriate.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.