Bill Text: NY S00443 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits boards of elections to allow election inspectors to work split shifts; their compensation shall be adjusted accordingly.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-22 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6907A [S00443 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00443-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 443--A Cal. No. 311 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, COMRIE, DeFRANCISCO, MARCHIONE, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to permitting election inspectors to split shifts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3-400 of the election law, as 2 added by chapter 5 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 3 7. The board of elections may employ election inspectors to work 4 [half-day] split shifts with adjusted compensation, provided, however, 5 that at least one inspector from each of the two major political parties 6 is present at the poll site for the entire time that the polls are open. 7 Each county board of elections shall prescribe the necessary rules and 8 procedures to ensure proper poll site operation. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law; provided that each board of elections is 11 authorized to promulgate any rules necessary to implement the provisions 12 of this act on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05852-03-7