Bill Text: NY S02050 | 2025-2026 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S02050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02050-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2050

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        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  in
     5  the  city  of  New  York and the county of Schenectady the term shall be
     6  four years beginning on January first of  each  alternate  odd  numbered
     7  year. The county legislative body of any other county may determine that
     8  the  commissioners  of  elections thereafter appointed shall serve for a
     9  term of four years. Such determination may be rescinded by a  subsequent
    10  action  of  the  county  legislative body which shall take effect at the
    11  expiration 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, 2026.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01875-01-5