STATE OF NEW YORK
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6278
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 3, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to required voting time
for an employee without sufficient time to vote outside of working
hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3-110 of the election law,
2 as amended by section 1 of part YY of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019,
3 are amended to read as follows:
4 1. [A] If a registered voter does not have sufficient time outside of
5 his or her working hours, within which to vote at any election, he or
6 she may, without loss of pay for up to three hours, take off so much
7 working time as will, when added to his or her voting time outside his
8 or her working hours, enable him or her to vote at any election.
9 2. [The employee] If an employee has four consecutive hours either
10 between the opening of the polls and the beginning of his or her working
11 shift, or between the end of his or her working shift and the closing of
12 the polls, he or she shall be deemed to have sufficient time outside his
13 or her working hours within which to vote. If he or she has less than
14 four consecutive hours he or she may take off so much working time as
15 will when added to his or her voting time outside his or her working
16 hours enable him or her to vote, but not more than two hours of which
17 shall be without loss of pay, provided that he or she shall be allowed
18 time off for voting only at the beginning or end of his or her working
19 shift, as the employer may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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