Bill Text: NY S03041 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3041 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases the minimum compensation to be paid to election day workers to three hundred dollars and election coordinators to four hundred dollars within the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03041 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03041-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3041

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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 increasing the  minimum
          compensation to be paid to election day workers within the city of New
          York

          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 3-420  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  180  of  the  laws  of 2005, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Election inspectors, poll clerks, election coordinators and  quali-
     5  fied  voters  appointed to act in place of an absent inspector, clerk or
     6  coordinator shall be paid for their services on the days of registration
     7  and election, by the county containing the election  district  in  which
     8  they  serve,  in an amount fixed by the county legislative body, subject
     9  to such limitations as shall be prescribed  or  authorized  by  statute,
    10  except  that  in  the  city  of New York the amount of such compensation
    11  shall be payable by such city and shall be fixed by the mayor at a daily
    12  rate which, in the case of election inspectors shall not  be  less  than
    13  [one  hundred  thirty] three hundred dollars and in the case of election
    14  coordinators not less than [two  hundred]  four  hundred  dollars.  Such
    15  inspectors, poll clerks, election coordinators and qualified voters at a
    16  general  or special village election conducted by the board of elections
    17  shall be paid by such village in an amount fixed by the village board of
    18  trustees subject to any such limitations.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04076-01-3