Bill Text: NY S00645 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a commissioner to meet certain qualifications before his or her appointment which shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifications prescribed by section three of the public officers law, and demonstrated experience in election administration or other management, operations, or administrative experience in the public, non-profit, or private sector as deemed sufficient by the board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-28 - referred to election law [S00645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00645-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         645--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring a commission-
          er to meet certain qualifications before his or her appointment

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3-200 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8. No later than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five,  the
     4  state  board of elections shall prescribe qualifications for all commis-
     5  sioners of boards of elections in each county and the city of New  York.
     6  Such qualifications shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifica-
     7  tions prescribed by section three of the public officers law, and demon-
     8  strated experience in election administration or other management, oper-
     9  ations,  or  administrative  experience  in  the  public, non-profit, or
    10  private sector as deemed sufficient by the  board.  Such  qualifications
    11  shall  apply  to appointments made beginning thirty days after promulga-
    12  tion of such qualifications and shall thereafter  be  reviewed  by  such
    13  board  at  least  every two years and updated as necessary.  Such quali-
    14  fications shall be prescribed by the board only after  consideration  of
    15  the  skills  and  knowledge  necessary or useful for the exercise of the
    16  duties and responsibilities of such commissioners, as well as the abili-
    17  ty to recruit a sufficient number of candidates to be commissioners.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03639-03-4