Bill Text: NY S08311 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes commissioners full time employees of the board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-17 - referred to election law [S08311 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08311-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8311 IN SENATE February 11, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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 making commissioners full time employees of the board The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 3-200 of the election law 2 are amended to read as follows: 3 2. Each board shall consist of two election commissioners who shall be 4 full time employees of the board, except that the county legislative 5 body of a county having a population of more than one hundred and twenty 6 thousand may, by local law, increase the number of commissioners to 7 four, to be appointed as provided in this title. Each of the major 8 political parties shall be eligible to recommend appointment of an equal 9 number of commissioners. 10 3. In the city of New York the board shall consist of ten commission- 11 ers of election who shall be full time employees of the board and who 12 shall be registered voters in the county for which they are appointed 13 and they shall be appointed by the city council of the city of New York. 14 Not more than two commissioners shall be registered voters of the same 15 county. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13429-01-1
